Prince Is Game 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...

Will he or won't he...The guessing game continues for UK stayer Sans Frontieres and whether he'll be here for the Melbourne Cup. The odds seem to be favoring a Cup start for the Irish St Leger winn...

FAME Game continues to dominate TAB betting on the Melbourne Cup , but Preferment now looms as a likely threat after drawing perfectly at last night’s barrier draw. Preferment is the second ...

Dermot Weld is up to his old tricks again, and this time it's the 'will he, won't he' game with his Melbourne Cup contender Profound Beauty. Although the mare has gone into quarantine, Dermot is st...

In latest Melbourne Cup news from the TAB, one punter has splashed out big time on Trip To Paris today outlaying $14,500 @ $8.50 to win a tick over $123,000. The Caulfield Cup runner-up has been ...

Aussie star So You Think is rated the horse to beat at $3.00 in the Grp 1 Dubai World Cup on March 31. The Aidan O'Brien-trained galloper has not been seen since finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cu...

A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. After all, the $27,500-fee C...