Robusta 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...

Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill hopes to be formulating interstate spring plans for Hey Elvis after the Ray White Open Handicap at Doomben.Hill is stepping Hey Elvis up to 2020 metres for the first t...

Breeder-owner Roger Jennings had two reasons to be delighted after his promising three-year-old filly Galloping Hill won the Shiftmar Handicap at Sandown.Stawell trainer Terry O'Sullivan explained ...

Trainer Bruce Hill will get an indication of Startsmeup's spring prospects when the talented gelding contests the Group Two Warwick Stakes on Saturday.Startsmeup is booked on a float to Sydney leav...

Spring is not yet in the air but for trainer Bruce Hill it can't come quickly enough.Hill is excited about the spring prospects of talented three-year-old Startsmeup who launches his latest campaig...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer has made the toughest call of his career by deciding to remain on the Gold Coast where he'll link with trainer Bruce Hill for the next three months.Palmer, 22, made a surp...

Emerging stayer Enzedex Eagle will miss the Newcastle Cup and instead run in the Hill Stakes as a leadup to a tilt at the Group One Metropolitan Handicap.Trainer Chris Waller and owner Col Keane de...