Rugby Street 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...

Old-timer Zipping is a 'hot' odds-on fav for Sat's Sandown Classic 2400m at Sandown Hillside. The 9YO is at $1.60 (that's 13/8 ON in the old language) and there's a big gap out to $6.50 (11/2) to t...

Manighar was the big mover in feature race markets after a sensational day's racing at Flemington and Warwick Farm, says Alan Eskander of Betstar. He told PPD: 'Although reigning Caulfield Cup winn...

The Luca Cumani trained Manighar is the first firmer for this year's Melbourne Cup, says TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie. Bets of $800 and $600 @ $81 have seen the grey gelding firm into $51. At his l...

Trainer Peter Moody will divert his Group One attention from Black Caviar to Manighar and Lights Of Heaven in Saturday's Doomben Cup.Moody's one regret going into the race is that the two have to r...

The Luca Cumani trained Manighar has been a price firmer for Sat's Caulfield Cup, according to bookies IASbet.com. It opened Manighar at 12/1 and he's now 10/1. Other firmers: Monaco Consul 30/1 to...

Manighar, the import who had never raced at less than 2400 metres until joining the Peter Moody stable, gave the leading trainer and his stable jockey Luke Nolen their first win in the $1 million A...