Second Thought 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...

English trainer Ed Dunlop is already planning another Melbourne Cup bid with his courageous runner-up Red Cadeaux. Dunlop was shattered after Red Cadeaux was edged out in a photo by French stayer D...

With the Black Caviar bandwaggon de-wheeled

SECOND declarations for the Melbourne Cup close on Monday and the squeeze is itensifying for the final spots in the $6.2 million nation-stopping race. As usual the Cup landscape can shift dramati...

International star Sea Moon has pulled up sore after his Australian debut in Saturday's Makybe Diva at Flemington. Owner Lloyd Williams said it would be another week before any decision was made ...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...