Stumped 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 Noel Doyle is still searching for answers behind Celtic Dancer's uncharacteristic last-start failure and is hoping blinkers will spark a form turnaround at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Doyle is a...

A nightmare barrier means Absent Friends chances of winning the Group Three Chairman's Handicap at Doomben on Saturday rest purely in the hands of Brisbane's premier ride Jim Byrne.Trainer Gary Por...

Trainer Steve Wallace says Railway Stakes winner Gilded Venom is fighting for his life and has only a slim chance of racing again.Wallace said the Golden Snake five-year-old had an infection in his...

Trainer Steve Wallace says Railway Stakes winner Gilded Venom is fighting for his life and has only a slim chance of racing again.Wallace said the Golden Snake five-year-old had an infection in his...

Trainer Steve Wallace says Railway Stakes winner Gilded Venom is fighting for his life and has only a slim chance of racing again.Wallace said the Golden Snake five-year-old had an infection in his...

Trainer Steve Wallace says Railway Stakes winner Gilded Venom is fighting for his life and has only a slim chance of racing again.Wallace said the Golden Snake five-year-old had an infection in his...