Rain Or Shine 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...

Rain or shine, Bart Cummings has the bases covered as he attempts to claim his second Classic in a week at Randwick.Allez Wonder and Think Money will represent Cummings in Saturday's AJC Australian...

Many of the state’s top trainers have runners nominated for Saturday’s June Stakes (1100m) at Royal Randwick with one notable exception. Premier trainer Chris Waller won’t have a runner in the $1...

Trainer Danny O'Brien declared "the sky's the limit" for impressive colt Star Witness after he posted his second Group One win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington.The winner of the Blue Diamo...

So You Think may be losing favour with Melbourne Cup punters but he remains number one with those who matter most.Owner Dato Tan Chin Nam says a final decision on whether the dual Cox Plate winner ...

It is as important to know when not to bet as it is when to bet. Many uneducated punters gamble for the action. You see them at the track and in the TABS, punters who have to have a bet regardles...

It is as important to know when not to bet as it is when to bet. Many uneducated punters gamble for the action. You see them at the track and in the TABS, punters who have to have a bet regardles...