Rosheen 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...

I've Got Talent is expected to make amends for a disappointing last-start effort at Rosehill on Saturday.The Guy Walter-trained five-year-old lines up in the Bacardi Breezer Handicap (1500m).He is ...

I've Got Talent is expected to make amends for a disappointing last-start effort at Rosehill on Saturday.The Guy Walter-trained five-year-old lines up in the Bacardi Breezer Handicap (1500m).He is ...

GORDON YORKE loaded up the truck and left a drenched Coffs Harbour yesterday morning bound for Brisbane and today's Doomben meeting, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.His report adds...

What is the most important of all form factors?Now I've got your attention, I confess that this question, posed many years ago by a young journo, has remained a sort of permanent challenge to me.Yo...

It's been a long journey but former New Zealand hobby trainer Roger Milne is hopeful Captain Sonador can finally fulfil his Group One dream in the Randwick Guineas on Saturday.Milne, 59, is growing...

Lightweight jockey Grant Buckley is hoping to make the most of the opportunity provided to him by leading trainer David Hayes on Red Element in Saturday's Group One The Galaxy at Randwick.Buckley, ...