Regal Problem 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...

One false step will deny early favourite Quality Road a start in this weekend's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.The colt jogged more than 2500 metres at Belmont Park over the weekend in an effort...

Trainer Clinton McDonald is ruing the relatively dry conditions at Caulfield for Second Effort who shoots for five straight wins in Saturday's Bletchingly Stakes.Second Effort is unbeaten in six st...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

Where does the truth lie? Where indeed does the truth lie? What represents good value for a horse? Is it reasonable to argue that “any price about a winner is a good price?”  I’ve always though...