Royal Attitude 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...

Godolphin struck in the September Stakes at Kempton late on Saturday evening, but it was Prince Bishop who eclipsed their leading Emirates Melbourne Cup contender Royal Empire in a thrilling clim...

Able Friend's much-anticipated Royal Ascot raid turned out to be a fizzer as fancied rival Solow galloped away with the Group One Queen Anne Stakes and Hong Kong's hero was left languishing after...

John McNair heard the talk that star sprinter Hay List might be bound for a new Melbourne-based trainer.He didn't let it get to him.He trusted he had done everything right by the horse and that Hay...

He is yet to fire in two Australian starts but a turnaround in attitude in the past month has Gai Waterhouse anticipating a much-improved showing from Cannonball in the Missile Stakes.Waterhouse sa...

He is yet to fire in two Australian starts but a turnaround in attitude in the past month has Gai Waterhouse anticipating a much-improved showing from Cannonball in the Missile Stakes.Waterhouse sa...

He is yet to fire in two Australian starts but a turnaround in attitude in the past month has Gai Waterhouse anticipating a much-improved showing from Cannonball in the Missile Stakes.Waterhouse sa...