Rum 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...

My first recollection of overseas racing was when UK Grand National champion Red Rum beat the gallant Australian Crisp in the 1973 GN. A group of us cheered and cheered for Crisp but alas it was no...

Trainer Jason Warren is confident the step up to 1400 metres for the first time will help Lady Rum Dum keep her unbeaten record intact at Sandown.The daughter of Caulfield Guineas winner God's Own ...

Mazzacano may follow the path of the great Crisp and run in the Grand National at England's famous Aintree course.The eight-year-old jumper made a triumphant return to the track after a two year ab...

Mazzacano may follow the path of the great Crisp and run in the Grand National at England's famous Aintree course.The eight-year-old jumper made a triumphant return to the track after a two year ab...

Smokin' Joey has been 'hot' in early Railway Stakes WA betting, according to the TAB early price movements.

Ballabriggs carried the story of the most famous family in Grand National history on for another generation at Aintree.Anyone with just a passing interest in racing will know of Ginger McCain, who ...