Secret Ambition 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...

The new-term focus for Derby hero Collection has shifted sharply, with the intended mission of landing the Group One Cox Plate in Melbourne already scrapped in favour of the Cathay Pacific Internat...

Josh Adams has made no secret of his ambition to win this season's apprentices' title in Sydney and showed he has the ability to give it a real shake with a winning treble at Warwick Farm on Wednes...

Leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller maintained his buffer over Gai Waterhouse with two winners at Randwick on Saturday but the day belonged to apprentice Brenton Avdulla.The 19-year-old began by ou...

There is an old, old story about an owner who maintained that the way he won so consistently was to keep himself in the best company and his horses in the worst. He moved in the very best circles ...