Strong N Smart 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...

The Robert Smerdon trained filly – Fontiton has drawn barrier 1 and remains the $2.50 favourite for Saturday’s Blue Diamond Stakes.    

An impressive gallop between races in New Zealand on Tuesday has all but confirmed a place in the Rosehill Guineas for blueblood colt Rock `N' Pop."Providing he trots up well in the morning he'll f...

The  Darren Weir -trained  Black Heart Bart  remains a strong favourite to win the Group One Goodwood at Morphettvill e on Saturd ay.   The gelding opened at $3.50 in the All-In market but has...

Will it be slow? Rain struck the Caulfield track again on Thursday. There had been 17.6 millimetres in the week up to Wednesday night but then another 16 millimetres came down from midnight to 7am ...

Our new Form Forum series kicks off with a discussion between Alan Jacobs and Jon Hudson on how to approach the task of deciding if a short-priced runner is worth a bet. JON HUDSON (JH): Firstly,...

Experience on the tricky Clifford Park cushion track is considered vital by many trainers but not so premier conditioner Robert Heathcote.Heathcote proved his theory correct when he prepared gallan...