Silver Cliff 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...

Craig Williams will continue his fight to ride in the Melbourne Cup when he takes his case to the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal on Monday.He will be joined by Nash Rawiller after both los...

Darryl Hansen is hoping Essington can be the start of a turnaround in his fortunes when the sprinter makes his comeback in the Listed Keith Noud Quality at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Hansen is training...

Danny Nikolic has started his appeal against a two-year ban from racing. Nikolic was disqualified by Victoria's Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board after being found guilty of threatening the chi...

Ouch, that hurts...Sydney apprentice Jamie Quinnell has filed an appeal against a seven-month suspension for the use of a banned substance. Quinnell, who pleaded guilty to the charge, has appealed ...

A five-week break between races may not be ideal for all horses but trainer Guy Walter believes it is pivotal to the prospects of Festival Stakes aspirant Fighting Fund.The consistent seven-year-ol...

Stephen Baster will have his appeal against a careless riding suspension heard tomorrow (Tuesday) by the Racing Appeals Board, but he's ready lost a longshot Newmarket Handicap ride on Undeniably (...