Smooth Pass 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...

Patinack Farm numbers for Brisbane's first black type two-year-old races of the season will hinge on Tuesday morning trackwork.Trainer John Thompson has five fillies nominated for the Calaway Gal S...

Trainer John Thompson has declared Sookie and Aronson as Patinack Farm's leading hopes to qualify for next month's Magic Millions Classic as the pair prepare to make their debuts at Eagle Farm on S...

Patinack Farm will produce a Warwick Farm team on Saturday which will be aimed at delivering success in a cross-section of autumn Group One races.Nathan Tinkler's racing and breeding operation will...

Patinack Farm's challenge for this season's Brisbane trainers' premiership continues with the prospect of a treble at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Nathan Tinkler's stable operation, under the direction ...

Jamie Nielsen hopes to bow out a winner with his last two metropolitan runners as private trainer for Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm at Eagle Farm.Three-year-old filly Blonde'N'Dangerous will line ...

Australian sprinters, including unbeaten champion Black Caviar, are now eligible for a $600,000 bonus if they can win the Patinack Farm Classic and an overseas Global Sprint Challenge race before t...