Sinhalese 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 Ricky Maund will watch General Truce's bid to give him his first Group One win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on television at another race meeting.Maund, 38, has had limited Gro...

Mornington trainer Shane Nicholls is happy with the preparation of his exciting colt I Am The General ahead of Saturday’s $2 million Jeep Australia Magic Millions Classic (1200m) on the Gold Coas...

David Hayes could have as many as four Blue Diamond runners should his two Prelude contenders fire at Caulfield.Hayes confirmed on Thursday that last week's impressive Caulfield debut winner Mama's...

Inconsistency in RacingáI have to agree with the people who contacted me after the final race at Randwick on July 25.How the hell could that horse win? was the general theme of the angry emails. Sp...

In the last issue (June PPM) I covered the idea of learning to "talk to the horse" when you get to the races. You'll recall I wrote about the attitude of the horse and I pointed to the fact that m...

As I advance closer to retirement age and pension status I have started wondering what sort of money I am going to need to supplement my pension as the miserable amount of superannuation I will rec...