Perfect Start 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 perfect start to the 2010 jumps racing season ended yesterday at Warrnambool when the John Wheeler-trained hurdler Sirrocean Storm was put down after an incident during the running of the Galle...

The wet track ability of More Than Ready's progeny is a confidence booster for Kevin Moses ahead of Perfect Silhouette's metropolitan debut at Randwick.The two-year-old filly pleased the trainer wi...

The wet track ability of More Than Ready's progeny is a confidence booster for Kevin Moses ahead of Perfect Silhouette's metropolitan debut at Randwick.The two-year-old filly pleased the trainer wi...

Perfect for Pierro...The 'ideal' #3 barrier shouldn't present Pierro with any problems in his quest for an eighth straight win in Friday night's Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley. The $220,000 ...

Sidestep  appears to have drawn a perfect gate in Saturday’s Group 1 $750,000 Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) in Perth. The Godolphin-owned and John O’Shea-trained sprinter will start from barrier two...

The Melbourne Cup favourite Americain is in "perfect" order for a repeat performance of his 2010 victory and his owner is looking forward to landing the big race trifecta.The Australian-owned, Fren...