Suddenly 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...

Danny Nikolic is discovering that when you strike big trouble in racing - especially reputation trouble - many people you consider your 'mates' suddenly vanish. That's why Danny's been finding it t...

Monday morning hotspot - it has to be the French stayer Brigantin. Bookmakers are reporting massive support for Brigantin to win the Melbourne Cup - and plenty of money for him in the Geelong Cup a...

War Pass, a Breeders' Cup winner, has died in mysterious circumstances less than 24 hours after returning to his United States stud from a second Australian shuttle season.Lane's End Farm, the famo...

Out you go, says the Singapore Turf Club... Aussie jockey Stephen Baster has been chucked out of Singapore racing and he doesn't know why. A prominent owner linked with Baster says the Melbourne jo...

The Gauch cops it! Popular Darren Gauci has a suspected fractured vertebra after a crunching 'through the rails' incident in the fourth race at Mornington yesterday. Gauci's mount Gothic Armageddon...

Tragedy...Golden Slipper winning trainer Bruce McLachlan has died suddenly at his Queensland home. He had a heart attack on Wednesday morning. McLachlan, aged 67, has been Queensland's #1 trainer ...