Storm Deity 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...

Bailing out of Sydney racing...The SMH reports that Australia's biggest bookmaker, Con Kafataris, is abandoning the Sydney betting ring with the on-course wagering market in free fall and the futur...

Aidan O'Brien could at least smile.Having seen Septimus, the horse regarded as Europe's supreme stayer, finish 18th of the 22 Melbourne Cup runners, he concluded he might have to try and do things ...

Turn me into Columbo! That seems to be the plea of Victoria's chief racing steward Terry Bailey. The Melbourne Herald-Sun reports that Bailey wants 'greater powers' to gather information, including...

Glyn Schofield's getting frustrated, and perhaps a little angry, over being taken off good rides. He's particularly upset at being dumped from Predatory Pricer. He was Predatory Pricer's rider las...

Connections of Brigantin must have been frustrated by his 3rd placing in the Geelong Cup. The French stayer was pocketed in third spot in the slowly-run 2400m and never really threatened the winner...

Tycoons do cry...Veteran Zipping's Australian Cup win proved a highly emotional one for mega-rich owner Lloyd Williams.He admits he shed a tear or two for the 8YO who had threatened many times to w...