Storm Runner 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...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Classy sprinting mare Shamal Wind stepped up her Spring Racing Carnival preparations with a jumpout victory at this week’s Caulfield Tuesday morning jumpout session. In her first hitout this ca...

Guy Walter has prepared many good staying fillies but will be out to claim his first Vinery Stud Storm Queen Stakes with Slapstick.The Warwick Farm-based horseman has won two Group One AJC Australi...

Guy Walter has prepared many good staying fillies but will be out to claim his first Vinery Stud Storm Queen Stakes with Slapstick.The Warwick Farm-based horseman has won two Group One AJC Australi...

Brett Prebble sealed a winning treble and the riding honours at Sha Tin on Sunday in extraordinary scenes when a flash storm hit the racecourse just as jockeys and club staff were preparing to sta...