Rothesay's Lad 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...

Talented mare Jasminka will put her credentials for a Sydney trip on the line when she makes her comeback at Doomben on Saturday.Jasminka was due to make her return at Eagle Farm last Saturday befo...

Trainer Brian Smith believes classy mare Jasminka will prove she's a genuine winter carnival sprints contender if she overcomes a hefty weight rise in the Bright Shadow Handicap at Doomben.Jasminka...

Trainer Brian Smith may raise the Brisbane winter carnival bar to the Group One Stradbroke Handicap with Jasminka following the mare's brilliant victory in the Listed Bright Shadow Handicap at Doom...

Top jockey Larry Cassidy applauded the training ability of Brian Smith after quality mare Jasminka made a blistering return to racing at Doomben on Saturday.Jasminka was having her first race start...

Sydney visitor Black Prince made a successful hit-and-run raid to score a narrow victory in the Ferrier Hodgson Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Jumping from barrier 16, the five-year-old showed bl...

Melbourne Cup winner (2007) Efficient is one of 26 entries for the Straight Six (1200m) at Flemington on Sat.The grey's 2008 Cup campaign was torpedoed when he strained a fetlock joint in training....