Supposition 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...

System rules must be obeyed to the nth letter of the law otherwise it no longer remains a system and instead becomes a selection process. This all quite subtle but I am sure you can see the differe...

System rules must be obeyed to the nth letter of the law otherwise it no longer remains a system and instead becomes a selection process. This all quite subtle but I am sure you can see the differe...

If Whobegotyou was a horse able to race on the pace he would be a sensation. As a matter of fact he is a sensation now as his finishing bursts are something to be seen but like many fast finishers ...

Punters can overdo the "what might happen" scenario to the point where far too many doubts cloud their form work. This weekend yours truly really showed how this "works" with two examples that cost...

March 21Wow! what a days turmoil Rosehill could produce today as some of the races will not be as easy to the favourites as seems per the prepost odds due to the added issue of forecast rain.Race 5...

March 21Wow! what a days turmoil Rosehill could produce today as some of the races will not be as easy to the favourites as seems per the prepost odds due to the added issue of forecast rain.Race 5...