Perfect Quality Horse

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

The Gold Coast has been a happy hunting ground for David Pfieffer and he is hoping Magic Millions Guineas favourite Safusa can keep it that way.The Sydney trainer has an unblemished record at the t...

Trainer Bryan Guy believes a favourable weight and perfect barrier can send Eleda out a winner at Doomben on Saturday before she is aimed at next year's winter carnival.Eleda, who will line up in t...

Boom colt Didntcostalot has come back stronger and smarter as he prepares for his biggest test at Warwick Farm on Saturday.The undefeated three-year-old will aptly resume in a race sponsored by his...

The Mornington Racing Club has increased the distance of its feature race, the Mornington Cup, to 2400 metres.By increasing the distance of the $200,000 feature by 400m, the winner will now pass th...

Hadabeclorka, the oldest horse in the race and who was a Perth Cup runner only 11 months ago, has staged a major upset to land the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.Nine-year-old Hadabeclorka ...

Premier trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely confident quality stayer Our Lukas is on target to score back-to-back wins in Saturday's $200,000 Ipswich Cup (2150m).Our Lukas showed he was back to h...