Pursued 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...

THE ROMAN INVASIONI had a most pleasant morning today with Roman Koz. Of course we talked racing.What else?Anyway, we exchanged all sorts of ideas on making money at the track, and we went over tha...

Jockey  Ben Melham  has been asked by Racing Victoria (RV) stewards to provide his phone records as part of the investigation into the  Baron Archer  betting probe. Melham rode Baron Archer when ...

It was a case of passion winning out over a career as a physiotherapist for trainer Ben Ahrens who landed his first Saturday metropolitan winner with Spechenka at Doomben.Ahrens has been training f...

Racing Victoria Chairman, Michael Duffy, has issued the following statement into the investigation of Damien Oliver's bet on Miss Octopussy at Moonee Valley on 1 October 2010:Following the completi...

This is the final article in our latest series on the world's top handicapping experts. We conclude the series with some views from Tom Ainslie, one of America's greatest authorities on selecting ...

When I started out to make money from horse-racing I was given two tips. They proved very helpful to me. But first, let me tell you some other things. My first attempt at making the racecourse m...