Purple Over Green 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...

Brett Prebble can continue his purple patch of form and his deadly combination with David Hall on Dapper Boy, a youngster who stands out as a banker in the middle pin of Sunday's Triple Trio at Sha...

Samantha Miss won't be the only filly taking her first steps on an AJC Australian Oaks campaign at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Grahame Begg has given inexperienced three-year-old Palacio De Crista...

Samantha Miss won't be the only filly taking her first steps on an AJC Australian Oaks campaign at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Grahame Begg has given inexperienced three-year-old Palacio De Crista...

The wet track ability of More Than Ready's progeny is a confidence booster for Kevin Moses ahead of Perfect Silhouette's metropolitan debut at Randwick.The two-year-old filly pleased the trainer wi...

The wet track ability of More Than Ready's progeny is a confidence booster for Kevin Moses ahead of Perfect Silhouette's metropolitan debut at Randwick.The two-year-old filly pleased the trainer wi...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...