Poincon 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...

Co-trainer Paul Jones is banking on the addition of blinkers giving Onthelookout a rev-up when he resumes at Canterbury on Christmas Eve."The blinkers will be back on to charge him up for the 1100 ...

The sometimes unorthodox training methods used on a Doncaster winner have been revisited in a bid to help Fill The Page post a breakthrough victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.After weeks of remed...

A recent gear change has added another string to the bow of consistent gelding Onthelookout who will chase his first black-type win in Saturday's Listed Civic Stakes at Rosehill.Onthelookout had an...

The mother and son training partnership of Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones celebrated a hometown victory with Fill The Page in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday.It was Joseph's first Canberr...

Paul Jones, the son of Canberra premiership-winning trainer Barbara Joseph, celebrated his first-ever winner as a trainer when Universal Boy charged home from near last on the turn to score a brill...

Grafton Cup plans for two Gai Waterhouse runners will become clearer when they race at Rosehill on Saturday.Fusakeo and Kontiki Park will both step up to 2000 metres for the first time this campaig...