Show County 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...

Trainer Graeme Murray says honest sprinter Kenny's World is forward enough to be a genuine chance of going back-to-back in Saturday's Listed Show County Quality.Kenny's World won last year's Show C...

Les Bridge is hoping to salvage something out of the spring with recent stable acquisition Leica Larrikin, starting at Rosehill on Saturday.Leica Larrikin, formerly trained at Corowa by Richard Fre...

Spring racing is here!.Although there have been a couple of good warm up bouts the big guns are starting to appear. I have no idea how many races will be won by the likes of Miss Scarlatti, Headway...

Glyn Schofield has been in scintillating form and the leading jockey is determined to keep it going as the spring carnival hots up.Schofield, a top-five finisher in the past two Sydney jockeys' pre...

Glyn Schofield has been in scintillating form and the leading jockey is determined to keep it going as the spring carnival hots up.Schofield, a top-five finisher in the past two Sydney jockeys' pre...

Glyn Schofield has been in scintillating form and the leading jockey is determined to keep it going as the spring carnival hots up.Schofield, a top-five finisher in the past two Sydney jockeys' pre...