The Hound 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...

Trainer Mick Price will run True Persuasion in this month's William Reid Stakes but has already conceded the Group One race to champion sprinter Black Caviar.True Persuasion will oppose the runaway...

Three-year-old Pied A Terre will join an elite group of champions if he can win the Group Two Blamey Stakes at Flemington.Cox Plate-winning filly Surround was the last three-year-old Blamey winner ...

The race to secure a start in the $3 million Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup (2400m) and $3 million Sportingbet Cox Plate (2040m) remains a challenge with first acceptances for both races at their...