Speed Bubble 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...

  It is nearly two years to the day since  Helene Super Star  won a Group race in Dubai and the time is right for the Tony Cruz-trained stayer to make a big race break through locally with a dro...

Trainer David Hall told the owners of brilliant speedster Blaze King he thought he "could finish the season the same way he started it" before Sunday's Pok Fu Lam Handicap (1,000m) and was as good ...

Zac Purton is going to have to be at his brilliant best to make it happen but lightly raced  Renaissance Art  is the one to beat in the Hong Kong University Alumni Association Challenge Cup (1,800...

Celestial Smile  has a proud record of consistency as he has made his way through the grades and he is poised to break into Group Three company with the handicaps in his favour in the Centenary V...

The Hong Kong Derby form has passed most of its tests so far, but  Got Fly  can give it another boost by winning the Group Three Queen Mother Memorial Cup (2,400m) at Sha Tin today(May 9), reports...

Group One races are rarely won as easily as it might look on paper, but  Designs On Rome 's victory in the $8 million Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2,400m) this afternoon at Sha Ti...