Ripe 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 Tony Noonan says Ortensia will be at her top for the Group One Futurity Stakes at Caulfield after two big-race conditioning runs this campaign.Noonan said the five-year-old mare was deservi...

Chris Waller believes The Embassy is nearing his peak ahead of the Group Three Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill.The Embassy is already a Group Three winner over the race distance of 2000m but Walle...

A wide barrier and topweight of 59 kilograms are not a concern for a bigger, stronger More Joyous when she makes her race return at Rosehill.That's the opinion of trainer Gai Waterhouse who said th...

A wide barrier and topweight of 59 kilograms are not a concern for a bigger, stronger More Joyous when she makes her race return at Rosehill.That's the opinion of trainer Gai Waterhouse who said th...

A wide barrier and topweight of 59 kilograms are not a concern for a bigger, stronger More Joyous when she makes her race return at Rosehill.That's the opinion of trainer Gai Waterhouse who said th...

A wide barrier and topweight of 59 kilograms are not a concern for a bigger, stronger More Joyous when she makes her race return at Rosehill.That's the opinion of trainer Gai Waterhouse who said th...