See That Storm 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...

Two of Australia's top races have been postponed until next week after a torrential storm flooded Flemington racecourse within 20 minutes.Jockeys agreed they were lucky that one of the three Group ...

Two of Australia's top races have been postponed until next week after a torrential storm flooded Flemington racecourse within 20 minutes.Jockeys agreed they were lucky that one of the three Group ...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Takeover Target has taken South Australia by storm, with a big crowd on hand at a wet Morphettville on Tuesday to see the champion being put through his paces in a track gallop.Trainer Joe Janiak s...

N A week's time, Luke Nolen's face may well be broadcast around the globe as the rider of the world's fastest horse, Black Caviar, following her run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in ...