Submission 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...

AFTER years of trying to bolster the profile of the Bendigo Cup to make it a qualifying race for the Melbourne Cup, Bendigo has been asked to make a submission to Racing Victoria, reports The Age.I...

DISQUALIFIED jockey Danny Nikolic has lodged an appeal with the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal against two decisions made by the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board.

Despite the intransigence of the Australian Racing Board in refusing to listen to calls to change the new whip rules, jockeys will probably not take strike action this weekend. But they are not rul...

Controversial Gold Coast Turf Club chairman Andrew Eggleston has had a two-month disqualification for unseemly conduct amended to a $1500 fine.Racing Queensland stewards hit Eggleston with the two-...

Golden Slipper day, 2009 will go down into the history books as the day when ALL the favourites were beaten into submission with not one saluting for the day. The defeats of Faulconbridge ($2.30), ...

Golden Slipper day, 2009 will go down into the history books as the day when ALL the favourites were beaten into submission with not one saluting for the day. The defeats of Faulconbridge ($2.30), ...