Pick Of The Bunch 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...

August 15 Pensioner Plan selectionsPLAN ARosehill 6-7-2-3-5-3-5-3Caulfield 5-11-1-4-4-3-4-8Doomben 1-5-4-1-5-5-2-9Morphettville 5-3-6-5-2-4-12-12Belmont Park 2-5-9-8-6-7-12-10PLAN CRosehill GOODRac...

Same jockey, same trainers – sort of – but different Sheikh Mohammed. That was the tale of this year’s  William Hill Blue Diamond Stakes , won so impressive by  Pride Of Dubai  on Saturday at Caul...

The chances of master trainer Bart Cummings winning his 13th Melbourne Cup on Tuesday look extremely positive with champion So You Think outclassing his rivals in the Mackinnon Stakes.So You Think ...

TAB Sportsbet's first markets are up for the Australian Derby, so in which progressive three-year-olds does the value reside? At this stage I simply can't go past Victoria Derby runner-up INDUNA, a...

Let me ask you a question. If you bet on a horse and you see its price rise or fall dramatically, how do you feel? If you feel sick when the horse's odds spiral upwards and smug when they fall, I'...

Oh, those trifectas! How lovely they are ... how frustrating they are! How on earth can we get the better of them? I suppose all greyhound punters have asked themselves the same question. On the ...