Seaduction 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...

Can you actually win at punting? Yes — but not the way most punters go about it. In this one, Gordon works through a classic Practical Punting piece on what it really takes: the professional's mind...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is unsure where Intertidal ranks among this season's two-year-olds but knows he will be much wiser after Saturday's Silver Slipper.The winner of two of his three starts, Interti...

Trainer Gerald Ryan is unsure where Intertidal ranks among this season's two-year-olds but knows he will be much wiser after Saturday's Silver Slipper.The winner of two of his three starts, Interti...

Gai Waterhouse will unleash two of her Golden Slipper big guns at Warwick Farm on Saturday as the march towards the $3.5 million showpiece heats up.Early Slipper favourite Raceway will tackle the L...

Golden Slipper contender Hinchinbrook could back up from his Skyline Stakes win and take on his Gerald Ryan-trained stablemate Intertidal in Saturday's Todman Stakes.Intertidal is a son of first se...

Trainer Clarry Conners is getting excited about the prospects of a fifth Golden Slipper with Georgette Silk stamping her quality with victory in the Widden Stakes.Conners rates Georgette Silk the e...