Some Eclipse 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...

FEARLESS jumper Black And Bent has achieved many firsts during his remarkable career, both on the flat and over hurdles, but in South Australia tomorrow he could eclipse a record that has stood for...

Comeback galloper Tintern may be given a shot at the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday after claiming his second victory of the spring.Tintern won over 1700 metres at Sandown on Sat...

Comeback galloper Tintern may be given a shot at the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on Saturday after claiming his second victory of the spring.Tintern won over 1700 metres at Sandown on Sat...

Coral-Eclipse fav So You Think, now nominated for the Breeders' Cup, continues to firm in the betting and is as short as 8/11 Saturday's big race at Sandown . UK bookies are reporting "one-way traf...

Rachel Alexandra has won the first match-up between racing's leading ladies, beating out undefeated mare Zenyatta for Horse of the Year.Voters chose the fabulous filly for the year-end honour at th...

Exciting four-year-old Folding Gear will be chasing some tail-end spring spoils in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.Father and son training combination Lee and Shannon Hope had hoped Folding Gear woul...