The Face 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...

Racing Victoria stewards have opened separate inquiries into the alleged betting activities of three jockeys. Stewards began the probes after a routine audit of wagering agencies' betting accounts....

The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board will hear the charge laid by Racing Victoria stewards against licensed trainer Robert Smerdon at 10.30am on Thursday, 7 February 2013, says Racing Victoria...

The bite...Black Piranha, a top contender for Sat's big Doncaster Mile, has returned a positive to the prohibited substance phenylbutazone. Stewards say a swab sample was taken from the Con Karakat...

Southern Speed's win in the Caulfield Cup was a 'slap in the face' for female jockeys. The ride went to Craig Williams but there are many who believe Clare Lindop should have been aboard. After all...

Leading trainer David Hayes will on Thursday face a reconvened Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) stewards' inquiry into the use of shockwave therapy on Poison Ivy which led to her withdrawal from a rac...

It didn't take long for Craig Williams to stamp his mark, again, on racing in Japan. He was aboard when Grand Prix Boss came back to his championship-level 2-year-old form in this third start this ...