Permanent Change 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...

Gillian Heinrich hopes to persuade jockey Larry Cassidy into becoming the stable's permanent rider after he partners Cat D'Antibes in the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy at the Gold Coast.Cassidy,...

What is the most important of all form factors?Now I've got your attention, I confess that this question, posed many years ago by a young journo, has remained a sort of permanent challenge to me.Yo...

Bob Ingham's recent prediction to trainer Chris Waller that it was just a matter of time before the prominent owner's famous cerise colours were again being carried to victory on a regular basis ha...

Internatiomnal  racing supremo Godolphin will have a permanent presence in Australia from the start of the new racing season. John Ferguson, bloodstock adviser to Godolphin’s owner Sheikh Mohammed...

The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) has announced a prizemoney reduction of nearly $4 million for its feature races next year in an effort to recoup an expected shortfall in excess of $5 million from ...

Former Queensland trainer Nerissa Cowell is hoping dual Listed winner Fiveoclockshadow can resurrect his career this spring and give hers a timely boost in the process.The winner of the 2006 Doombe...