Recovery 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...

Jockey Tye Angland will return to Hong Kong this weekend in the hope of resuming riding early next month....The former champion Sydney apprentice has been at home recovering from injuries sustained...

Michelle Payne has completed her gruelling concussion recovery test and says she is now mentally exhausted. "I think I went really well and the lady conducting the test said I went well, but I was ...

Good news...Michelle Payne is back riding trackwork following her recovery from the injuries she copped in a fall at Donald in May. She had four fractured vertebrae and broken ribs. She says: 'I ha...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn has made a quicker than expected recovery from a broken wrist and hopes to return to riding next week.Shinn, Sydney's premier jockey and stable rider for Ga...

So You Think has returned unscathed to Ballydoyle following his victory in the Red Mills Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.The Australian import was made to work hard to claim his third Group One tri...

Peter Wells was lost for words on Christmas Day after learning his good friend and fellow jockey Lachlan Fyfe had awoken from a coma.Upon hearing the news, Wells and his family cut short their Chri...