Slick 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...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Bailey may have unearthed another future topliner after debutant Slick Image continued the stable's winning momentum at Doomben.Bailey landed a race-to-race double with Fl...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Bailey may have unearthed another future topliner after debutant Slick Image continued the stable's winning momentum at Doomben.Bailey landed a race-to-race double with Fl...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Bailey may have unearthed another future topliner after debutant Slick Image continued the stable's winning momentum at Doomben.Bailey landed a race-to-race double with Fl...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Bailey may have unearthed another future topliner after debutant Slick Image continued the stable's winning momentum at Doomben.Bailey landed a race-to-race double with Fl...

A decision on a start for New Zealander Sir Slick in the $3 million Cox Plate will be made by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) stewards on race morning.RVL chief vet Paul O'Callaghan inspected Sir Sli...

New Zealand iron horse Sir Slick has arrived back in Queensland after cheating death for another attempt to win the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast.Sir Slick will line up for his 120t...