Red Begonia 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...

In-form mare Sheila's Star has been nominated for a stakes race in Adelaide this weekend as a precaution against missing a start in the Listed Anniversary Vase on her home track at Caulfield.Traine...

Rick Hore-Lacy will run Pinnacles in Saturday's Listed Anniversary Vase at Caulfield as a lead-up to another tilt at the $2 million Doncaster Mile.The five-year-old has returned to form at the righ...

Group One winner Tears I Cry has had his workload ramped up in order to revive his fortunes on the anniversary of his last win at Flemington.Warrnambool trainer Anne McGrath, who also part-owns the...

Trainer Brendan McCarthy says Zedi Knight's favourable barrier will be a real asset as he tries to maintain his unbeaten record over 1400 metres in Saturday's Group Three Victoria Handicap at Caulf...

Trainer  Ciaron Maher is yet another Victorian eyeing off the lucrative Sydney autumn spoils. The Caulfield-trainer is aiming Mr O’Ceirin towards the $25 million carnival.

Rubiscent will make history should he win Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400 metres on the anniversary of his only Group One and weight-for-age victory in last year's 1800m Underwood Sta...