Shamus 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...

AS well as confirming a start in Saturday’s Australian cup, Danny O’Brien said he’s already eyeing a second Cox Plate victory with  Shamus Award . O’Brien told TVN’s Racing Review today that wi...

Cox Plate winning three-year-old Shamus Award will kick off his autumn campaign in the Group 1 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on February 8.

History says that Shamus Award has to do something not yet achieved if he is to win Saturday’s Australian Guineas at Flemington.  Never has the winner of the Cox Plate, which Shamus Award famousl...

GOSFORD 30/011 Rameau $4.60 - $2.90 ($695 @ $4.60, $2200 @ $3.20)3 New market after scratching of Shamus4 Spurtonic $3.40 - $3 ($3000 @ $3), Queen's Elect $9.50 - $7 ($1000 @ $9.50), Greek Island $...

Danny O’Brien’s stable stars Shamus Award and Shamexpress both competed in jump-outs at Flemington on Friday morning. The Cox Plate winner and Newmarket Handicap winner performed well and are on ...

Maiden 3YO Shamus Award is a maiden no more following his all-the-way victory in today’s WS Cox Plate. Initially the first emergency in the field, Shamus Award was granted a run in the race a...