Stoneage Romeo 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...

Kris Lees will give  Lucia Valentia  the opportunity to perform on the biggest stage during the spring carnival following a sensational win first-up in the Tramway Stakes at Royal Randwick, rep...

Mt Gambier trainer Dean Saxon says he is disappointed the track has come up only dead for superior wet tracker Riceman in Saturday's $100,000 David Bourke Provincial Plate at Flemington.The rising ...

An all-the-way Canterbury win to three-year-old Not A Dancer on Wednesday has earned the filly a shot at a black-type race at the same track in April.Canberra trainer Matthew Dale was delighted his...

Stablemates Rags To Riches and Pepperwood will be under the spotlight for a possible trip to Sydney for next month's Villiers Stakes when they clash at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The pair will meet in ...

Pocket rocket Border Rebel rediscovered his best form with a commanding victory in his comeback at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Border Rebel ($3.40), having his first start for nine months, showed great ...

Patrick Smullen says Profound Beauty is in probably the best form of her career going into Tuesday's Melbourne Cup, but the Irish jockey fears one of the world's best gallopers, So You Think, stand...