Silver City 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...

Promising three-year-old Silver Falls is set to enhance what has become a strong country form race when he resumes at Moonee Valley.The gelding won his race debut at Geelong but at his next start f...

The focus on two-year-olds will switch to Sydney and Melbourne over the coming weeks starting with Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Classic.Karuta Queen's all-the-way win in Saturday's $2 million Magic M...

Trainer Greg McFarlane has Magic Millions riches in his sights with three-year-old Biggietupac who resumes at Canterbury on Wednesday.Biggietupac returns in the Grand Pavilion Handicap (1200m) with...

Fairytale filly Chance Bye will be out to prove she is a genuine Golden Slipper contender when she faces her toughest test at Rosehill on Saturday.The speedy youngster is unbeaten in two starts but...

Fairytale filly Chance Bye will be out to prove she is a genuine Golden Slipper contender when she faces her toughest test at Rosehill on Saturday.The speedy youngster is unbeaten in two starts but...

Greg Bennett believes the weather, and not a country formline, is the biggest query for Solitaire Princess when she makes her city debut at Warwick Farm on Saturday.The Scone-based trainer has sele...