Royal Champion 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...

Over-rated Star Witness won't be a starter in the Australian Guineas. Instead, he'll clash with unbeaten sprint star Black Caviar in the $1 million Newmarket Handicap 1200m at Flemington. Trainer D...

Trainer Gary Portelli has every reason to be confident about Delago Bolt tackling the likes of Manhattan Rain and Black Caviar in the Danehill Stakes after watching him in a jumpout at Flemington.A...

Trainer Gary Portelli has every reason to be confident about Delago Bolt tackling the likes of Manhattan Rain and Black Caviar in the Danehill Stakes after watching him in a jumpout at Flemington.A...

Sydney colt Delago Bolt will have his first gallop up the straight at Flemington on Tuesday as he prepares for Saturday's star-studded Group Two Danehill Stakes.Trainer Gary Portelli is hoping the ...

Like everyone else, Southern Speed's trainer Leon Macdonald is in awe of Black Caviar.Unlike everyone else he has a horse who could possibly test the champion over the 1400 metres of Saturday's Gro...

Wonder mare Black Caviar's chances of taking her unbeaten record to Perth are looking bright on the back of her recovery from Saturday's Patinack Farm Classic victory."Last night (trainer) Peter (M...