Second Guess 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...

Guess what? Stewards have upheld their own protest! Isn't that a surprise! It was Racing NSW's chief steward Ray Murrihy who performed the inevitable. He lodged and then upheld a minor protest on b...

The big Doncaster question is this: Can More Joyous win on a heavy track? The 'facts' say No. She's had 2 goes on heavy and failed both times. Owner John Singleton is certainly concerned that MJ wi...

Chris Waller's first Sydney premiership came sooner than expected for the simple reason he never expected to win one.The Rosehill-based horseman capped his meteoric rise in Sydney when he was crown...

Tony McEvoy  is expecting significant improvement from  Concealer  when she lines up in Saturday’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. The daughter of  Nicconi  is currently r...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

What Did We Learn?The horse ran with the lesser lights and finished a gallant second after having some difficulty getting clear. The distance may have been just too far with the weight.The BIG less...