Relieved 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...

The Team Hawkes camp was mightily relieved when All Too Hard got home in the Orr Stakes at Caulfield. The half-brother to Black Caviar won by a half length with Mawingo ($16) and Mr Moet ($13) runn...

Trainer Robbie Laing yesterday pleaded with racing officials to take direction from jumps racing's leading participants to ensure the sport survives beyond 2010, reports The Age.It says: Laing, the...

Uate's weight in the Gosford Guineas concerns trainer Kris Lees more than the track conditions or barrier draw.The stakeswinning colt will carry the top weight of 58kg in Sunday's Listed $250,000 G...

Damien Oliver was a relieved man after the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board upheld his appeal against the severity of a one-month suspension, varying the penalty to a severe reprimand.The cham...

Kris Lees is very keen on the future prospects of his Rosehill plunge winner Elimbari. He says: ''The second best two-year-old I've had, put it that way...' He was, of course, putting Samantha Miss...

Stewards have told Craig Williams he must ride Ortensia in Sat's Stradbroke at Eagle Farm. They say he had given a commitment through the autumn and winter that he would ride the filly in the big r...