Ritzy's Command 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...

New Zealand trainer Jeff Lynds is glowing in his praise of Wall Street who takes on the might of the Bart Cummings-trained So You Think in Saturday's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.The Palmerston North...

The relationship between Randwick trainers and the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) remains tense amid reports the main stable blocks on the High Street side of the course are to be demolished to make ...

John Morrisey believes Rockdale will need to produce street-fighter qualities to claim the trainer's third Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm."It's going to be a tough slog over 2400 metres i...

John Morrisey believes Rockdale will need to produce street-fighter qualities to claim the trainer's third Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm."It's going to be a tough slog over 2400 metres i...

Renowned as the trainer of the world's best sprinter, Peter Moody switched his focus to the staying breed on Thursday when he paid $1.2 million for a colt with a Melbourne Cup pedigree.Black Caviar...

Three-time stakeswinner Predatory Pricer has died of suspected acute colitis on an agistment farm in NSW.An unlucky galloper, the five-year-old retired in September after a career plagued by injury...