Shaye's Trust 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...

Grant Allard, the former strapper of brilliant galloper Lohnro, is used to grooming champions.The 32-year-old Gosford-based trainer is confident he has another rising star under his care in the sha...

Apprentice jockey Jake Hull won't forget his introduction to city riding at Canterbury on Wednesday when he became the third NSW rider in a week to be involved in a serious racing incident.Hull wal...

Apprentice jockey Jake Hull won't forget his introduction to city riding at Canterbury on Wednesday when he became the third NSW rider in a week to be involved in a serious racing incident.Hull wal...

Apprentice jockey Jake Hull won't forget his introduction to city riding at Canterbury on Wednesday when he became the third NSW rider in a week to be involved in a serious racing incident.Hull wal...

Apprentice jockey Jake Hull won't forget his introduction to city riding at Canterbury on Wednesday when he became the third NSW rider in a week to be involved in a serious racing incident.Hull wal...

Grant Allard, the man who strapped 11-time Group One winner Lonhro, will be chasing his first city win as a trainer with Saddler Jack at Canterbury on Wednesday.Saddler Jack will line up in therace...