Supremely 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...

Shadow looms...Caulfield Guineas winner Starspangledbanner is reported to have returned an irregularity in a sample taken in a lead-up race to Saturday's Grp 1 at Caulfield. Stewards are awaiting t...

No excuses! Brisbane trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely keen on the chances of his slick sprinter Buffering in Friday night's Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley. 'There'll be no excuses if...

HORSE of the year Typhoon Tracy is primed to end the longest losing sequence of her career when she returns in Friday night's group 2 Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley, reports The Age. It says: Th...

Though he never quite won the hearts of the racing public like his indomitable father did, the supremely talented racehorse Lonhro has transferred his skills to the breeding barn and will be crowne...

Trainer Rob Heathcote has had a change of mind and will consider adding Work The Room to his Melbourne spring carnival team if the six-year-old is successful at Doomben on Saturday.The former Victo...

Premier trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely confident quality stayer Our Lukas is on target to score back-to-back wins in Saturday's $200,000 Ipswich Cup (2150m).Our Lukas showed he was back to h...