Scarlet Aurora 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...

Post-Melbourne Cup celebrations for Brett Prebble have thrust Andreas Suborics into the hot seat on the horse to beat in tonight's Fakei Cup at Happy Valley on Medallist.Connections of Prebble's si...

Classic Jewellery  has always been at his best fresh over the Happy Valley 1,650m and a change of trainer shouldn't stop that being the key to the six-year-old being hard to beat in the Hong Kon...

Talented sprinter  Domineer  looked most unlucky not to keep an unbeaten record this season at his latest outing and gets his chance to put things right in the St Andrew's Challenge Quaich (1,200m...

Few winners at Happy Valley this season have been as impressive as the Tony Millard-trained Genuine Leader and the five-year-old looks ready to take his next step up the ladder in the Japan Racing ...

The squeeze is on Saturday provincial meetings in Victoria...There are reports Racing Victoria has discussed getting rid of them. No-one is actually denying the reports. Racing Victoria chief execu...

from RACING POSTSmart sprinter Simple comes to the all-weather for the first time in the Chak On Handicap (1,200m) tonight, but that should not prove any obstacle to him landing victory. Already a ...