The Irish 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...

Irish mare Profound Beauty continues to head the early market for the Melbourne Cup. Bookies IASbet.com has the Dermot Weld trained 5YO at $13.00 (12/1) in its market released on Monday. There are ...

Irish Lights, an impressive first-up winner at Flemington 1100m on Sep 5, is the early equal fav at $4.00 (3/1) for the Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield on Saturday. Headway, a last start 8th ...

Three European Melbourne Cup contenders, headed by Dermot Weld’s mare  Pale Mimosa , can confirm their trip to Australia in the Irish St Leger at The Curragh on Sunday night (AEST), says Racing...

Apprentice Tim Bell's appeal against a careless riding suspension will be heard on Thursday. Bell is appealing his conviction and severity of suspension. He was suspended from Jan 2 through to Jan...

Irish Lights kicks off her autumn campaign in the Group Three Rubiton Stakes with a rematch with the brilliant filly Avenue at Caulfield on Saturday.Group One Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights w...

Irish Lights kicks off her autumn campaign in the Group Three Rubiton Stakes with a rematch with the brilliant filly Avenue at Caulfield on Saturday.Group One Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights w...