The Big House 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...

SHE may be the smallest horse that he’s sat on, but Brent Stanley subscribes to the adage that size doesn’t matter with House Of Stars, which posted her third win in Monday's Land Engineering Ada...

It's UK Epsom Derby time on Saturday night (Australian time). PPD Club's UK man Simon Hall will name his selection for the big race after 6pm (members area only). 'At The Races' website reports: Th...

Striking filly The Opera House will make her race debut in the coming weeks after posting another solid barrier trial win.While the rare, pure white two-year-old has attracted headlines since she w...

There's been no sign of cider at Tulloch Lodge - only champagne - after an utterly dominant autumn carnival. Pierro's golden run, Laser Hawk's emergence, More Joyous' greatest triumph and a string ...

Royalty on the way! Carlton House, owned by the Queen and set for Gai Waterhouse's Randwick stables, is due to fly out of Hong Kong in the early hours of Monday morning alongside Australian gallope...

Aussie star So You Think has been installed 5/2 fav with the sponsors to nab back-to-back wins in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown UK next month. The Racing Post says that although Frankel holds an ent...