Promise 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...

Matthew Smith is keeping all options open with races in three states a possibility for promising filly Slow The Flow this autumn.Slow The Flow, who resumes in Saturday's Bosco Bulldogs Handicap (12...

Trainer Terry O'Sullivan landed his second victory in the VRC St Leger at Flemington with long shot Exceptionally and he's now looking ahead to the Melbourne Cup with the filly.Exceptionally gave e...

Trainer Terry O'Sullivan landed his second victory in the VRC St Leger at Flemington with long shot Exceptionally and he's now looking ahead to the Melbourne Cup with the filly.Exceptionally gave e...