The Albion 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...

An attempt at back-to-back wins on Scone Cup day holds much more appeal for Border Rebel's trainer Sue Grills than taking on the world's best sprinter in Brisbane.Border Rebel will take his place i...

Tamworth-trained speedster Border Rebel is still a chance to run in next week's Ramornie Handicap at Grafton but it is more likely he'll head to Sydney to make his weight-for-age debut in the Missi...

Tamworth-trained speedster Border Rebel is still a chance to run in next week's Ramornie Handicap at Grafton but it is more likely he'll head to Sydney to make his weight-for-age debut in the Missi...

Tamworth-trained speedster Border Rebel is still a chance to run in next week's Ramornie Handicap at Grafton but it is more likely he'll head to Sydney to make his weight-for-age debut in the Missi...

Tamworth-trained speedster Border Rebel is still a chance to run in next week's Ramornie Handicap at Grafton but it is more likely he'll head to Sydney to make his weight-for-age debut in the Missi...

Brilliant sprinter Border Rebel is Stradbroke Handicap bound and his Tamworth trainer Sue Grills has no concerns about the hoodoo shadowing the path she has mapped out for him.Border Rebel took his...