Rumble 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...

Connections of Rhyno Chaser are hoping a change of scenery will do the trick with the dual stakeswinner.The four-year-old, who won last year's Listed Dulcify Quality (1800m) and the Listed Baillieu...

Connections of Rhyno Chaser are hoping a change of scenery will do the trick with the dual stakeswinner.The four-year-old, who won last year's Listed Dulcify Quality (1800m) and the Listed Baillieu...

Good luck and a good ride are the keys to former talented juvenile Romanus returning to the winner's circle at Warwick Farm.Trainer Gary Portelli said little had gone right for the three-year-old t...

Hus Der Lieften will be the headline act for Gerald Ryan at Rosehill on Saturday but the trainer is also excited about the return of Melbourne Cup prospect Ready to Lift.The mare was a gallant runn...

Good luck and a good ride are the keys to former talented juvenile Romanus returning to the winner's circle at Warwick Farm.Trainer Gary Portelli said little had gone right for the three-year-old t...

Connections of Rhyno Chaser are hoping a change of scenery will do the trick with the dual stakeswinner.The four-year-old, who won last year's Listed Dulcify Quality (1800m) and the Listed Baillieu...