Styallo 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 Bede Murray is hoping Coniston Bluebird shows enough this preparation to warrant steering him towards the AJC Australian Derby in the autumn.The Scenic colt returns to action in the Rosehil...

Trainer Bede Murray is hoping Coniston Bluebird shows enough this preparation to warrant steering him towards the AJC Australian Derby in the autumn.The Scenic colt returns to action in the Rosehil...

I sense some upsets this round, so have decided to go with the following: FREMANTLE v ESSENDON- Fremantle Under 39.5 @ $2.75Though the return of inspirational skipper Jobe Watson will bolster Essen...

áLast night as the witching hour stole upon me - its approach masked by the sound of raindrops flung from the clouds in wretched pacts of ankle-deep treachery (a month's worth drenched Melbourne in...

The very mention of target betting can raise the hackles of some people. They say it's crazy, deranged, a certain long-term loser, and so on. These same people forget to say that any form of bett...

The very mention of target betting can raise the hackles of some people. They say it's crazy, deranged, a certain long-term loser, and so on. These same people forget to say that any form of bett...