Sweet Issy 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...

Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase hero Sir Pentire is one of six horses trainer Robbie Laing has nominated for the Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.With jumps racing under suspen...

Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase hero Sir Pentire is one of six horses trainer Robbie Laing has nominated for the Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.With jumps racing under suspen...

Warrnambool Grand Annual Steeplechase hero Sir Pentire is one of six horses trainer Robbie Laing has nominated for the Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.With jumps racing under suspen...

THE international numbers continue to swell for the spring carnival with confirmation that the 2008 runner-up Bauer and Godolphin's multiple group 1 winner Campanologist are bound for the $6 millio...

Trainer Barry Baldwin is overlooking Saraji's shock last start defeat and is confident the filly can bounce back in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Saraji started favourite in a 1000m ...

Comeback jockey Matthew Allen will renew acquaintances with Danzylum in the Group Three Victoria Handicap at Caulfield on Saturday.Allen has a good record on the Robbie Griffiths-trained galloper, ...