Pistachio 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...

Leading money trainer John Moore has warned that Tony Cruz's Super Pistachio won't be allowed to steal tomorrow's HK$8 million Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2,400m) the way he did the ...

Underrated Sapelli was back to his best last start over the Sha Tin 1,800m and a light weight and good draw can see him take out the Group Three Centenary Vase today. The John Size-trained gelding ...

Champion trainer John Size doesn't call on Brett Prebble too often 

Super Satin confirmed his status as the champion four-year-old of Hong Kong with a stunning win in Sunday's HK$16 million Hong Kong Derby (2000m) at Sha Tin. Bred and sold by Baramul Stud for $340,...

What separates the night all-weather meetings at Sha Tin from the common garden all-weather races is the track pattern, and that should allow the Sean Woods-trained Free Judgement to land an overdu...

In the circumstances of a crazy-run Derby, the John Moore-trained Dominant was not able to live up to his billing for the classic but he has done enough to suggest he will be a force to reckon with...