Sammy 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...

Snow Alert added his name to a long list of stakes winners in an illustrious thoroughbred family when he scored a deserved stakes success in the listed Rowley Mile (1600m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday...

Trainer  Ciaron Maher is yet another Victorian eyeing off the lucrative Sydney autumn spoils. The Caulfield-trainer is aiming Mr O’Ceirin towards the $25 million carnival.

Frankel extended his unbeaten record to 12 with another awesome performance in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, reports www.attheraces.com.Following his 11-length demolition job in the...

Just when you thought it would be safe to declare that Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap (LR) winner Jerezana had topped off a remarkable season for Darley's charismatic Lonhro, the champion stallion e...

Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...

Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...