Smart Talk 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...

Michael Rodd is talking the talk about his Melbourne Cup mount Red Cadeaux. He reckons 'Red' ticks plenty of boxes in any form appraisal and considers him a 'strong chance' in the big race. He says...

LEADING owner Lloyd Williams instructed jockey Michael Rodd not to speak to TVN after Zipping scored his third consecutive Sandown Classic yesterday, reports the Sunday Age.It says: Earlier, Tinter...

A pre-race pep talk from Larry Cassidy helped teenage apprentice Ashley Butler score the biggest win of his career in the National Apprentice Series Handicap at Doomben on Wednesday.Butler, 19, is ...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

Race-hardened Secrets Untold took the honours with his third straight win but it was the performances of the beaten brigade which was the talk of the track at Eagle Farm.Secrets Untold sat in the b...

All the talk about a bog track for the Doncaster on Saturday could be just that...talk. Latest reports say there's a good chance, if the weather stays rainfree, that the Randwick track could be rat...