The Best Bad Boy 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...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

Trainer Patrick Payne will have a second-up shot at Monday's Christmas Stakes with Cellarmaster even though he believes the Listed race is slightly short of his best distance.The Dubawi four-year-o...

In my younger days, I once worked on a building site in England. I was doing the time-honoured 'Aussie boy goes back to the Old Dart' routine (and I had the time of my life). Anyway, the foreman s...

Beaudesert trainer Ben Ahrens will never forget his first runner at Randwick after Spechenka claimed the Group Three Summer Cup in course record time.The five-year-old beat the odds to even make it...