Reggie's Boy 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...

Will Glen Boss be riding at Sat's big Golden Slipper meeting at Rosehill? Looks unlikely. He's copped a suspension of 10 meetings for careless riding on Hearts And Arrows in the Belmark Rural 3YO M...

The task for Victoria's two leading chances in Saturday's $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic became harder at this morning's barrier draw, where Clevadude was allocated barrier 18 of 22 and Calc...

Tough fight but he won it...Fast-lip apprentice Daniel Ganderton has had a two-month suspension overturned after a successful appeal over a Gold Coast ride earlier this month. DG was suspended for ...

Clarry Conners' bid to get Brisbane jockey Ric McMahon to ride for his Sydney stable has been thwarted by the Chilean volcanic ash cloud.Conners booked McMahon for three rides at Warwick Farm on We...

Jockeys Craig Newitt and Glen Colless have picked up the rides on local hopes Ghetto Blaster and Paprika in the Group One Doomben 10,000 on Saturday.In a dramatic day which saw the well-fancied Who...

Jockeys Craig Newitt and Glen Colless have picked up the rides on local hopes Ghetto Blaster and Paprika in the Group One Doomben 10,000 on Saturday.In a dramatic day which saw the well-fancied Who...