Super Trouble 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...

Zac Purton has run into trouble with officialdom in Hong Kong...He's been fined HK$300,000 (A$40,000) fine for not reporting to stewards that he had been approached for tips by a 'notorious' punter...

Multiple premiership winner Douglas Whyte could have to fend off two Australian jockeys this season to claim another Hong Kong title.Whyte shares the early running with last season's adversary Bret...

Bad news for Danny....Melbourne jockey Danny Nikolic has been banned from riding for two years after being found guilty of threatening Racing Victoria's chief steward last month. Nikolic, 37, was c...

Goulburn trainer Danny Williams has been fined $7500 by Racing NSW stewards after an inquiry into Schmoo returning a positive swab to prohibited substance promazine sulphoxide after it won at Warwi...

Zac Purton put on a riding clinic with a four-timer at Happy Valley on Wednesday night that gave his jockeys' championship hopes a boost at a critical juncture of the season and delivered a featu...

By the time the last race was run and won Zac Purton already had his feet up enjoying a well-deserved beer and a barbecue, but earlier he had struck with a lightning quick four-timer that snapped...