Stuck On You 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...

Who'll ride So You Think in next Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe? Trainer Aidan O'Brien says he'll wait until later in the week before finalising riding plans for the Aussie superstar. He's been...

HE $1.82 million Hong Kong Sprint, which had been won by an Australian-bred horse every year since it was first run in 2000, had a change of flavour yesterday with the South African-bred-and-traine...

Takeover Target has taken South Australia by storm, with a big crowd on hand at a wet Morphettville on Tuesday to see the champion being put through his paces in a track gallop.Trainer Joe Janiak s...

David Hayes cannot speak highly enough of young Chad Schofield. In fact, he reckons he's a champion in the making, a young Brent Thomson or John Stocker. Hayes rolled out the accolades after Chad's...

Samaready remains a dominant favourite for Saturday's Blue Diamond Stakes after coming up with barrier eight at Tuesday's draw.The Mick Price-trained filly is among a full field of 16 plus four eme...

A Few months ago a professional punter friend invited me to his home to watch him at work on his form study. I was keen as this man has a fully computerised set-up, and downloads fields and rating...