The Filly 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...

Jockey  Nick Hall  will know more on Wednesday whether he will be able to return to the saddle this spring. The 28-year-old has missed more than three months of riding after he had surgery on a l...

In the week when the Nick Olive-trained Voice Commander scooped the NSW Country Horse of the Year award, another shining light from his Canberra stable has starred in the Listed Starlight Stakes at...

SA trainer Daniel Clarken is delighted with the progress of his Blue Diamond Stakes winner, Miracles Of Life.  On Friday night at Moonee Valley the flying filly will tackle the Group 3 $150,000 C...

Canberra trainer Nick Olive heads to Albury Thursday with a juvenile and in-form four-year-old looking to land a winning double, reports Racing NSW. The Olive stable, which has been enjoying a go...

ALREADY brimming with talent, the Melbourne jockeys' ranks are today further bolstered by the return of Nick Hall, who at 25 carries a potent mix of experience and a burning hunger into the spring ...

Prominent owner Nick Moraitis has enjoyed great success with the progeny of Zabeel (NZ), most noticeably Horse Of The Year Might And Power and dual Group 1 winner Fiumicino, and he may well have hi...