The Believer 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...

If the adage a change is as good as a holiday is correct, 2008 Doncaster Mile winner Triple Honour is set for a big campaign under new Queensland trainer Rob Heathcote.Triple Honour will make his s...

A muscled-up Triple Honour is back at Chris Waller's stable with the trainer excited by both his appearance and his prospects.Waller said a tilt at a second Doncaster Handicap victory was on the ag...

A muscled-up Triple Honour is back at Chris Waller's stable with the trainer excited by both his appearance and his prospects.Waller said a tilt at a second Doncaster Handicap victory was on the ag...

Local trainer  Darren Weir  will saddle-up a team of three gallopers to tackle the  Listed Sportingbet Ballarat Cup  (2200m) on Saturday, reports Racing Victoria. Weir told RSN Radio his best cha...

The Darley team captured the Sydney two-year-old triple crown at Randwick on Saturday but not before a wayward Helmet almost threw away the Champagne Stakes.The $5.50 favourite led the field up and...

Chris Waller is not expecting a miracle form reversal from Triple Honour in the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick but does expect significant improvement.The five-year-old has been out of the winner's ...