Red Boomshakalaka 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...

Trainer Kris Lees says a good barrier will ensure Absolutelyfabulous will not be giving Hot Danish another massive head start when they clash in Saturday's Group One Coolmore Classic at Rosehill.Ab...

Top trainer Robert Heathcote will resist the temptation to add promising filly Tomboy to his team preparing for an assault on the spring carnival in Melbourne.Heathcote is not looking beyond Saturd...

Yet another silly tale in the whip saga...Nash Rawiller has been hit with a $200 fine for a breach of the controversial whip rules at Canterbury, even though stewards admitted it was the "lowest de...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Studies and work commitments have prevented young Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie from returning to Melbourne with Rothera who has figured in a stable switch to Peter Moody.Currie rocketed into promin...