Sneaky Freddy 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...

Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...

Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...

Warrnambool trainer Ciaron Maher says eight-year-old Geeorb is a better horse than a year a year ago when he emerged as one of Victoria's top jumpers.The Encosta De Lago gelding made his jumps debu...

Eric Musgrove can find several reasons for giving quiet achiever Stop The Traffic his chance in Saturday's $200,000 AV Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley.The Zabeel gelding has won six country s...

Eric Musgrove can find several reasons for giving quiet achiever Stop The Traffic his chance in Saturday's $200,000 AV Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley.The Zabeel gelding has won six country s...

Tainui Teina remains on track for next month's Crisp and Grand National Steeplechases despite his misfortune in the Hiskens.The gelding lost his rider Richard Eynon at the second last fence in Satu...