Royal Meeting 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...

Aussie sprinters Nicconi and Alverta arrived in England yesterday ahead of next month's Royal Ascot carnival. Latest market from the UK for the King's Stand Stakes has Nicconi at 4/1, Starspangledb...

With day one of the famous five-day Royal Ascot meeting just 24-hours away, the ground looks like being firm...

Royal Ascot-bound sprinter  Wandjina  undertakes the first leg of his trip to England on Friday night. The  Gai Waterhouse -trained colt will travel from his Randwick stable by road to Melbourne,...

Punters enjoyed a Royal Ascot to remember at the expense of the bookmakers who were left cursing the worst results in living memory.The five-day jamboree resulted in the layers handing bundles of c...

Punters enjoyed a Royal Ascot to remember at the expense of the bookmakers who were left cursing the worst results in living memory.The five-day jamboree resulted in the layers handing bundles of c...

Punters enjoyed a Royal Ascot to remember at the expense of the bookmakers who were left cursing the worst results in living memory.The five-day jamboree resulted in the layers handing bundles of c...