Savage One 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...

Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell has had a lash at Racing NSW and Sydney racing generally. In his SMH column, 'Mad Max' rips into last Sat's Randwick card: 'Yes, it was a heavy track due to rece...

OWNER Phil Sly will pay a late entry fee for the Thousand Guineas for brilliant Sale Maiden winner  Lumosty , reports Racing Network.  Sly has to pay next Tuesday a $27,500 late entry fee fo...

Is there anything much worse than to enjoy a golden winning run on the punt and then be hit with a savage losing streak? Talk about a confidence blaster! Losing runs are the bane of every man or ...

At the end of next week the number of Plan A Pensioner Plan selections will reach 487 , assuming 8 races on each of the five metropolitan meetings. As I stated when I first started this experiment ...

Reigning Cox Plate hero Maldivian and 2007 Melbourne Cup victor Efficient share the honour of being equal topweights for this year's Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.Racing Victoria's chief handicapper...

The upper echelon of Australian horse racing are WFA races with undoubtedly the WS Cox Plate THE greatest of them all. These are the races where the best horses generally compete and they are also ...