Puddle Alley 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...

A huge fire at a nearby paint factory has forced Friday's Canberra race meeting at Thoroughbred Park to be abandoned.

WITH Friday's Gosford trials washed out by rain, Gai Waterhouse will send Melbourne Cup favourite  The Offer  south. The Offer  was one of 28 horses that Waterhouse had entered for Gosford ...

Astute Adelaide trainer Phillip Stokes is carefully planning every move of his stable star Hucklebuck, reports Racing Network. The three-year-old son of Elsvtroem resumed in Adelaide on Saturday ...

Persistent heavy rain has forced the abandonment of Queensland's premier midweek meeting at Doomben on Wednesday. The Ipswich meeting for Friday has now been transferred to Tuesday week (March 5) w...

The push for Mighty High to win the Caulfield Cup is continuing, says TAB Sportsbet. It says the HK raider was $13 on Thursday and is now at $9.00. The bigger bets include:$10,000 e/w @ $13$10,000 ...

Phillip Stokes  is already looking to next year’s Spring Racing Carnival  with stable star Hucklebuck , reports Racing Victoria. The Adelaide trainer plans to give the  Emirates Stakes winner a ...