Picnic Bay 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...

When Paul Cave has an up-and-coming stayer working his way up in distance at this time of year, there's really no prizes for guessing where the horse might be headed.Cave, the winner of six Listed ...

If Our Billy Blue was a human being, Paul Cave says he would be the class clown.But the trainer is hoping the application of a one-eyed blinker for the first time at Canterbury on Wednesday can swi...

The Queensland Derby will be the mission for Landlord who underlined his staying potential with a hard-fought win over 2000 metres at Randwick.The Bart Cummings-trained colt is by European stallion...

The Queensland Derby will be the mission for Landlord who underlined his staying potential with a hard-fought win over 2000 metres at Randwick.The Bart Cummings-trained colt is by European stallion...