Samurai Star 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...

Anthony Cummings is hoping weekend success with his two-year-old team carries over to midweek racing when Ninth Legion steps out at Canterbury.Jockey Peter Robl was successful on the Cummings-train...

Top Gold Coast apprentice Matthew Palmer and former Rockhampton junior Chris McIver laid a few personal demons to rest with a successful day at Doomben.Palmer, 22, gave his first hint he could turn...

ROSEHILL   RACE ONE Favourite backers had little to concern themselves about after Zumbelina scored handsomely. Although drifting from $1.50 out to $1.75 come start time, she still held 66...