Skills 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...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

In a recent issue of PPM I wrote of the trap of becoming over-confident in your greyhound handicapping skills. Feeling too firmly that your race alignment can be expected to routinely predict the...

From NEIL FRANKLYNWISECRACK3g : Trainer - Ken & Bev Kelso3 starts : 2 winsWin distance range : 1600m - 2100mTrack conditions won on : Fast/GoodVisiting Queensland jockey Jim Byrne showed off his sk...

Beleaguered apprentice Mitchell Beadman has been given the all-clear to resume his career by Racing NSW's Riding Skills Panel.But he will not be permitted to return at Rosehill on Wednesday.He mist...

In an age when kids are grabbing 'fame' whenever they can, it's nice to see apprentice Jackie Beriman deciding to take her time about launching into major city racing. She and trainer Jarrod McLean...

It's bye-bye to Noel Callow for the Aussie winter. He's all set to make a mark in India. He will don the colours of the 'King of Good Times', Dr Vijay Mallya, for the forthcoming Bangalore summer m...