Super Joy 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...

Brett Prebble begins his abbreviated season Wednesday night with two rides at Happy Valley and Bundle Of Joy looms as a strong winning chance for the Aussie in the middle leg of the Triple Tr...

A bigger and stronger More Joyous stepped out between races at Rosehill on Saturday as she and her rider Nash Rawiller stepped up preparations for their returns.Rawiller has been sidelined for the ...

Golden Slipper winner Sebring faded in the closing stages of a star-studded barrier trial at Randwick on Friday but the $30 million colt did enough in the hitout to impress trainer Gai Waterhouse.C...

Premier Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse says Royal Discretion is going as well as any horse in her stable and is destined for Group One glory this spring.The four-year-old will run first-up in the Gr...

Golden Slipper winner Sebring faded in the closing stages of a star-studded barrier trial at Randwick on Friday but the $30 million colt did enough in the hitout to impress trainer Gai Waterhouse.C...

Gai Waterhouse's confidence in two-year-old Manhattan Rain has been further boosted by Real Saga's winning return to racing.An Encosta De Lago half brother to super sire Redoute's Choice, Manhattan...