Persian Front 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...

Tasmania's best weight-for-age galloper delighted the big crowd at Hobart when he held on to win the Thomas Lyons Stakes by a nose, giving trainer Charlie Goggin his fourth win in the Listed race.C...

Tasmania's best weight-for-age galloper delighted the big crowd at Hobart when he held on to win the Thomas Lyons Stakes by a nose, giving trainer Charlie Goggin his fourth win in the Listed race.C...

George has been a regular racegoer for many years. He loves racing and always has. A happy-go-lucky type of bloke, married with a loving wife and two daughters, he has a good outlook on life. He ...

One of the top races on the Australian calendar is the 1600m Group 1 Doncaster run at Royal Randwick and this year all punters would have agreed it was it's usual conundrum before the race. However...

One of the top races on the Australian calendar is the 1600m Group 1 Doncaster run at Royal Randwick and this year all punters would have agreed it was it's usual conundrum before the race. However...

The state of the Randwick course proper is again the centre of attention on the eve of George Main Stakes day, with overwatering causing the track to be rated in the slow range.Randwick will host t...