Silver Spurs 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...

Frankel lived up to the billing as he ran out a brilliant winner of the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, UK. The build-up to the contest was intense as the star three-year-old miler took on Canford...

Former Australian horse Starspangledbanner has finished fifth in the Group One Haydock Sprint won by the much improved Markab.Trained by Henry Candy, Markab jumped from gate 14 and with the field s...

THE best indication of just how Lonhro has far exceeded any prediction about his future as a stallion is provided by the normally optimistic Henry Plumptre, reports The Age. It says: Just 18 months...

Lee Freedman will get a clearer guide on his Caulfield Guineas chances when stablemates Censor and The Ruffian clash in the Group Two Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley.Censor is $5.50 favourite with TA...

Sepoy is unlikely to be rushed onto the international racing stage despite confirming his dominance of Australian juvenile racing with his Golden Slipper triumph.Talk that Sepoy would join other Au...

Unbeaten colt Sepoy has thrashed his rivals in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes to give Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation its most important two-year-old success in Australia so far.The colt was...