Strad 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...

Sincero has dropped out of favor for Sat's Stradbroke after his disappointing run in the QTC Cup. He's now at $8.00 (7/1). New favorite for the big sprint is Beaded at $5.00 (4/1). The Betstar mar...

Black Piranha is in to $3.80 favoritism for the Stradbroke Hdcp with just 24 hours to the big race. TAB Sportsbet has Ortensia on the second line at $7.00. Officials are expecting a heavy track des...

Trainer Bruce Hill hopes to know if talented Gold Coast sprinter Hey Elvis is capable of competing on a bigger stage next year after the gelding tackles the Listed Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm....