Riverbend Gold 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...

That's no way to talk? Dean Holland lodged an official complaint with Racing Victoria stewards against trainer Troy Portelli following the Hareeba Stakes at Mornington. RV stewards spoke to Holland...

Gary Portelli is approaching Monday's Warwick Farm meeting with an open mind as he prepares to give three-year-old filly Heels her first city test.Heels is a full sister to the talented Portelli-tr...

Sydney mare Red Tracer is firming as a potential Stradbroke Handicap runner as trainer Chris Waller expands his winter options for the Group One placegetter.Red Tracer confirmed a Brisbane carnival...

Glen Colless will be the new rider for Melito when she lines up for another round against Black Caviar at Doomben on Saturday.Far from being scared off by the presence of the champion mare, connect...

Gary Portelli is one trainer who thinks there is value in taking on Black Caviar.Portelli is planning to run former NSW bush mare Platinum Skye against Black Caviar in the champion sprinter's comeb...

Shin soreness in some of his better two-year-olds is threatening trainer Gary Portelli's Golden Slipper plans.Portelli revealed his juvenile stocks are under pressure because of an untimely run wit...