Surefire Miss 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...

A late change of training plans for English Melbourne Cup hope Mad Rush should be seen as a sign of the horse's good health and fitness, according to his trainer.Mad Rush had been scheduled to trav...

Betting fever has swung into high-heat mode on the Caulfield Cup with just 24 hours to go before the field jumps away...Luca Cumani's much-hyped Cima De Triomphe is attracting big support, though s...

MARK Kavanagh said yesterday that Atlantic Jewel was not being rushed in her comeback preparation, so a Melbourne autumn program is off the agenda for the unbeaten filly, reports Andrew Eddy in The...

The outstanding metropolitan winners of four juvenile races down the eastern seaboard of Australia on Saturday joined the rush of quality gallopers heading to next month's $2 million BMW Magic Mill...

Punters are clamouring to back More Joyous to win April's $3.5 million Golden Slipper but are staying away from her long odds-on quote in the Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill.But one horse who has...

Punters are clamouring to back More Joyous to win April's $3.5 million Golden Slipper but are staying away from her long odds-on quote in the Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill.But one horse who has...