Serene Shadow 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...

A little bit of commonsense (but only a little bit)...The Appeal Panel in NSW has halved a $2,000 fine handed to Michael Rodd by Racing NSW stewards for excessive whip use aboard the Bart Cummings-...

A shattered Shane Scriven concedes his race-riding days are almost certainly over if he does not win an appeal against the severity of a five-month suspension imposed on him by Racing Queensland Li...

Michael Rodd will miss the ride on Maldivian in Sat week's Grp 1 Turnbull Stakes after copping a suspension at Betfair Park Sandown on Wednesday. Rodd admitted causing interference on 2nd placegett...

JOCKEYS riding at the Sydney carnival will seek a meeting with Racing NSW officials to seek clarification on penalties for whip overuse, reports the Courier-Mail newspaper.Its report by Bart Sincla...

Daniel Ganderton's plea to have a penalty for overuse of the whip overturned has been rejected on appeal, with the Australian Jockeys' Association (AJA) stepping up its campaign to have the rule ch...

Daniel Ganderton's plea to have a penalty for overuse of the whip overturned has been rejected on appeal, with the Australian Jockeys' Association (AJA) stepping up its campaign to have the rule ch...