Precious God 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...

Easy pickings...Black Caviar will face six rivals when she shhots for her 17th successive win in Friday night's Grp 2 Australia Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. The champ's rating of 130 is an asto...

Black Caviar could face one of the biggest fields of her career in the Group Two Australia Stakes following unexpected interest in taking on the unbeaten champion.For much of her career Black Cavia...

Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily may get the chance to throw down the gauntlet to unbeaten mare Black Caviar with more aggressive riding tactics in the Newmarket Handicap.Co-trainers Mathew Eller...

The Kav Show's off and rolling for the spring and it's a spot of 'December' that may give him a big November...Yep, the imported December Draw seems to have Cups written all over him. He was impres...

Superstar mare Black Caviar is a surprise nomination for the $1 million Group 1 Lexus Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on 10 March.Nominations for Australia's premier sprint closed today an...

Unbeaten filly Black Caviar is the early fav for Flemington's autumn sprint feature, the Grp 1 Newmarket (1200m). Black Caviar hasn't raced since copping an injury when winning the Grp 2 Danehill S...