Square Cut 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...

"You gotta cut up rough if you wanna get square in this game," an old harness racing man once told me. What he meant in his cussy way of speaking was simple: Get rid of the no-hopers in a race –...

"You gotta cut up rough if you wanna get square in this game," an old harness racing man once told me. What he meant in his cussy way of speaking was simple: Get rid of the no-hopers in a race –...

Murray Baker  has praised his Caulfield Cup favorite   Mongolian Khan  as one of the best he has had in his stable, reports racing.com. Baker, who has won some of Australia's biggest races with ...

To Flex or Not to FlexAs Hamlet didn't say, that is the question.I've just completed an article for Practical Punting Monthly and while I was researching it I had a sort of change of heart. I was p...

This regular page is devoted to the performances of clearcut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. Over the course of a year various aspects of favourites will ...

This regular page is devoted to the performances of clearcut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. Over the course of a year various aspects of favourites will ...