Sharwing 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 first Sydney clue to Perth galloper King Saul's Rosehill Guineas chances is tipped to be revealed at Rosehill on Saturday.Earmarked for an autumn campaign after his WA Guineas win and Group One...

Eat less and exercise even more than usual.That's the plan for top jockey Glyn Schofield for this week as he aims to win Australia's final Group One of 2011 on Saturday.Schofield secured the Kingst...

Bookies have Manawanui edging Mosheen in early betting on Sat's Randwick Guineas at Randwick. TAB Sportsbet has Manawanui at $2.80 (7/4) and Mosheen on $4.00 (3/1).RANDWICK GUINEAS MARKETMANAWANUI ...

Controversial Railway Stks winner Luckygray remains unchanged ($2.60) at the top of betting after the final field was declared for Saturday's WA Kingston Town Classic. Betting opened on November 4 ...

UNLIKE his son, Chad, internationally-travelled jockey Glyn Schofield will be going on a diet this week to ride West Australian Guineas winner King Saul in Saturday's Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot,...

A change in routine and a return to weight-for-age conditions has trainer Neville Parnham hopeful of back-to-back Kingston Town Stakes wins with Playing God.The four-year-old needs to bounce back f...