Spills 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 was a case of women to the fore at Eagle Farm when apprentice Priscilla Schmidt and Gold Coast trainer Kelly Purdy landed their first metropolitan wins.Schmidt, who quit a career as a flight att...

Do you suffer from the 'dog box blues'? Those nights when you reckon that the usual pattern of box behaviour has gone completely awry? Those nights, or afternoons, when dogs you expect to win from...

Do you suffer from the 'dog box blues'? Those nights when you reckon that the usual pattern of box behaviour has gone completely awry? Those nights, or afternoons, when dogs you expect to win from...

Harness Racing is, as a spectator sport, far different from its relative. The closeness of the horses to the crowd, the tight, even racing, thrills and sometimes spills. And despite what the ard...

Harness Racing is, as a spectator sport, far different from its relative. The closeness of the horses to the crowd, the tight, even racing, thrills and sometimes spills. And despite what the ard...

In this two-part article, Paul Bockman, one of Australia's leading jumps racing form analysts, discusses the key form factors he uses to beat the jumps. WHY THE JUMPS? Intelligent people often...