Pull The Catch 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...

Group One-winning jockey Josh Parr took his first major step towards a return from injury by riding trackwork on Saturday morning.It was the first time in more than two months Parr has been able to...

Caulfield's mounting yard has erupted with more than 50 owners cheering home Starspangledbanner to a remarkable win in the Group One Oakleigh Plate.The Leon Corstens-trained three-year-old was out ...

Caulfield's mounting yard has erupted with more than 50 owners cheering home Starspangledbanner to a remarkable win in the Group One Oakleigh Plate.The Leon Corstens-trained three-year-old was out ...

Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford is a better than 50 per cent chance to run in the Belmont Stakes.The race on June 11 could serve as a rubber match between the colt and Kentucky Derby winner Ani...

Not a raceday goes by without one or more horses turning in what we call 'form reversals' and many times these abrupt changes in form are shockers. There seems to be absolutely no reason for the i...

Staking forum hosted by Brian Blackwell. Should you stop betting for the day as soon as you go into a profit situation? It's a point that many punters have probably talked about a great deal over...