Smart And Dapper 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...

Brett Prebble can continue his purple patch of form and his deadly combination with David Hall on Dapper Boy, a youngster who stands out as a banker in the middle pin of Sunday's Triple Trio at Sha...

The last time Luke Nolen rode at Doomben he arrived in a dapper, pin-striped suit and left in an ambulance with facial wounds and a smashed nose.But time heals all wounds and jockeys are a tough br...

Racing is a tough game - just ask Sydney trainer Les Bridge.Bridge is most famous as the trainer of 1987 Melbourne Cup winner Kensei and 1983 Golden Slipper winner Sir Dapper.More recently Bridge h...

Young iron horse Lucky Elmo will not only back up at Randwick on Saturday just three days after his gallant second at the same venue, he is also likely to go around the following week at Rosehill.T...

Young iron horse Lucky Elmo will not only back up at Randwick on Saturday just three days after his gallant second at the same venue, he is also likely to go around the following week at Rosehill.T...

Encouraged by his trackwork, David Hayes has thrown Golden Slipper runner-up Von Costa De Hero into Friday night's Group Two Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valley.The leading trainer said the intention w...