Strike Point 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...

Shane Scriven hopes to celebrate winning his first Brisbane jockeys' premiership with an early victory aboard Jazz Heart at Doomben.Scriven has five rides on Saturday and rates Jazz Heart in the Ow...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...

Some said Brett Prebble could have been a rich man if he'd had a HK$1,000 note for everyone who shook his hand and wished him a happy birthday, but the Australian ace went out and got it himself wi...

Four years after his biggest success in the VRC St Leger, Accumulate continues his latest comeback after a series of setbacks in Saturday's RSL Plate at Flemington.The Zabeel seven-year-old steps u...

With jumps racing on the ropes and fighting for survival, trainer Chris Hyland is hoping to score a timely feature race win on the flat with Chairmanoftheboard at Caulfield.One of the state's leadi...