Shalaa Strike 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...

DANIELLE JOHNSON, the daughter of New Zealand riding great Peter Johnson, is headed to Australia early next month to ride at country venues. The 19-year-old Auckland-based apprentice is on a two-we...

After more than 20 years as a trainer in the United States, Murray Johnson kicked off the latest chapter of his training career in style today with a winner from his first Australian runner.

From NEIL FRANKLYNDI'S BOY4g : Trainer - Marty Johnson13 starts : 3 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1200mTrack conditions won on : Slow : HeavyShowy grey gelding with plenty of speed, but I'd li...

The Tatts W.S Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 weight-for-age championship thoroughbred. Held annually at Moonee Valley Racing club in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest races of the Spring Rac...

GROUP 1 stars Joseph Pride and Tye Angland will combine at Gosford on Wednesday in a bid to snare another feature-race victory as the racing season draws to a close, reports the Sydney Morning Hera...

Jameka  heads six horses in Saturday’s  $120,000 Listed Talindert Stakes  (1100m)  at Flemington  that hold a nomination for the following week’s Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield, reports...