Sassy Queen 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...

Jockeys' championship leader Zac Purton can provide some new year cheer with two clear bankers in a jackpot-boosted Triple Trio at Wednesday's public holiday meeting at Sha Tin, reports the HK...

Aussie jockey Zac Purton has made a brilliant start to the new racing season in Hong Kong. He booted home 3 winners at last Sat's opening day meeting at Shatin. The HK Racing Post says: 'Season ope...

Hong Kong's cards go on the table today for the Longines Hong Kong International Races with Ambitious Dragon in the Jockey Club Mile looking the most convincing of the favourite runners, reports th...

Zac Purton is quickly becoming another Hong Kong superstar. After his final day treble at Sha Tin, the Racing Post in HK says: 'He's made great leaps this season and left no one in any doubt about ...

Brett Prebble can continue his purple patch of form and his deadly combination with David Hall on Dapper Boy, a youngster who stands out as a banker in the middle pin of Sunday's Triple Trio at Sha...

Zac Purton is going to have to be at his brilliant best to make it happen but lightly raced  Renaissance Art  is the one to beat in the Hong Kong University Alumni Association Challenge Cup (1,800...