Smart Recognition 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...

Pepperwood gave bookmakers a bonanza result when the outsider caused an upset win in Saturday's Listed Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm.Perfectly handled by Glen Colless, Pepperwood ($41) stormed h...

David Hayes-trained Be That As it May is blazing a winning trail that is giving her sire Halo Homewrecker posthumous recognition.Halo Homewrecker, who died while standing at Swettenham Stud in 2005...

Shane Scriven made the most of his late booking for Rags To Riches to claim the Listed Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm.Scriven was booked to ride Scone mare Alverta in the 1600-metre feature but h...

Trainer Robbie Heathcote may be forced to change direction with Our Lukas' summer campaign if the Ipswich Cup winner is successful in the Listed Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm.Our Lukas showed a ...

Trainer Robbie Heathcote may be forced to change direction with Our Lukas' summer campaign if the Ipswich Cup winner is successful in the Listed Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm.Our Lukas showed a ...

Trainer Paul Messara's decision to bypass the Listed Recognition Stakes with Canberra Cup-bound Alverta has boosted rival Pat Duff's confidence of another feature success at Eagle Farm.Duff will sa...