The Legal Factor 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...

SWAN HILL Acceptances on Tuesday 8th February, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.30 SWAN HILL J...

Group One winning colt Foxwedge has been retired to stud leaving Ortensia to carry the flag for Australia in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.The Group One sprint was to be the swan song for ...

Rocking Force will make his campaign swan song in the Listed Straight Six at Flemington after having his race plans switched twice in the past month.Unbeaten champion Black Caviar turned the seven-...

The Epsom Handicap has emerged as a possible swan-song race for pre-post favourite Sincero.As Stephen Farley prepares Sincero to keep an unbeaten record at Group One level in Saturday's feature mil...

Horses at the opposite ends of their careers will be out to enhance trainer Anthony Cummings's reputation as a carnival giant killer at Randwick on Saturday.Cummings will saddle up rising nine-year...

The racing career of The Opera House, believed to be Australia's only pure white racehorse, is in doubt because of injury.The Opera House, raced by a syndicate put together by adman John Singleton,...