Performing Diva 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...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh and owner Lawrence Eales signalled they would again be major players this spring when Whobegotyou defeated reigning Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy in the Dato Tan Chin Nam St...

Unfashionable mare Cruisy Lady will be on a mission to prove her Civic Stakes placing was no fluke when she strives to go one better in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill.Cruisy Lady is trained b...

Unfashionable mare Cruisy Lady will be on a mission to prove her Civic Stakes placing was no fluke when she strives to go one better in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill.Cruisy Lady is trained b...

As everybody knows, I oversee an article every month called Ask Me Anything. And punters certainly do! Everything you can think of, and some things you never have, turn up in my pile of emails and...