Shoot The Rapids 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 Patrick Payne and Steven Pateman combination continued to dominate the Victorian jumping scene at Sandown yesterday, with the pair taking their shared wins for the season to 11 after a winning ...

Patrick Payne's dominance with a boutique group of jumpers has continued with his Grand National Hurdle hope Capecover scoring at Sandown.Former Cups horse Capecover brought up Payne's ninth jumps ...

Patrick Payne-trained stablemates Capecover and Kerdem have continued their new jumping careers in style with wins at Bendigo on Sunday.The pair gave the former jockey his biggest day as a trainer ...

A shorter season on a reduced number of tracks and the Grand National Hurdle and Steeplechase races relocated from Flemington to Sandown in August instead of July highlight a revamped jumps program...

Patrick Payne's winter stocks have been boosted recently by the arrival of a team of five well-performed stayers from across the Tasman.And the recruits are poised to begin returning dividends for ...

Patrick Payne's winter stocks have been boosted recently by the arrival of a team of five well-performed stayers from across the Tasman.And the recruits are poised to begin returning dividends for ...