Persual 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 Americain dream rolls on....The magnificent French stayer, now with David Hayes, has arrived in Sydney in readiness for the next step of his 2012 campaign. His Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Gera...

Peter Robl's checklist ahead of a riding comeback at Rosehill on Saturday has been finalised - with one exception.Of the factors he can control as he prepares to ride in a race for the first time i...

Peter Robl's checklist ahead of a riding comeback at Rosehill on Saturday has been finalised - with one exception.Of the factors he can control as he prepares to ride in a race for the first time i...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh says Definitely Ready can topple the heavily-backed Kulgrinda providing he handles the tight Moonee Valley circuit at his first appearance at the course on Saturday.Definitely...

Noel Mayfield-Smith prepared the first winner at a Hawkesbury stand-alone Saturday meeting and now hopes to land one of the feature races on the provincial club's showpiece day.Mayfield-Smith will ...

In the absence of the injured Michael Rodd, trainer Mark Kavanagh has turned to Damien Oliver for the ride on Whobegotyou in the Grp 2 Liston Stakes at Saturday's Caulfield meeting. Kavanagh has al...