Shelby's Secret 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 high Australian dollar, extremely generous - by European standards - prizemoney and the status of the Melbourne Cup as the world's premier staying race are all continuing to make the Victorian ...

They're calling it the foreign legion...Half of next month's Melbourne Cup field will be made up of overseas-trained horses. That's the prediction, anyway. It's been confimed that Dermot Weld's Pro...

News from Racing Victoria last night confirmed Melbourne Cup second and third favourites –  Bande  and  Admire Rakti  – went into quarantine at Tokyo racecourse on Wednesday. They will complete a...

Emerging English stayer Tactician, owned by the Queen, is one of 22 international entries for the $2.65m Caulfield Cup on Oct 15. The 4YO, one of two entries for trainer Michael Bell, won the Liste...

INTERNATIONAL stars Kirklees and Cima De Triomphe retained favouritism for tomorrow's $2.5 million Caulfield Cup with TAB Sportsbet last night, but Melbourne bookmaker Michael Eskander said he woul...

Kerrin McEvoy is close to making a comeback to riding from his injury-enforced break. He's booked to ride Campanologist in the Melbourne Cup (3200m) on Nov 2 with Frankie Dettori choosing Godolphin...