The Magnate 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...

Queensland mining giant Clive Palmer was forced to use his private helicopter to pluck up to 60 people from treacherous floodwaters in and around his horse stud in south-east Queensland, reports Th...

Favourite backers have been piling into Azkadellia to win  Saturday's  Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.   The talented mare is $4.20 into $4 since the barrier draw this morning and is holdin...

Group 1 winning mare  Azkadellia  is the $4.60 favourite after nominations for the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on June 11.   The Queen Of The Turf Stakes winner on Day 2 of The Championshi...

Azkadellia may be the $2.80 favourite for the Doomben 10000 but TAB punters are giving Fell Swoop and Delectation a real shot, both priced at $6.00. The money is split between the three horses...

THE horseracing interests of self-made mining magnate Nathan Tinkler are in deep financial crisis after having failed to meet the superannuation payments of its workers since November, says a front...

Organisers of a mass sell-off of horses owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler say it is not a fire sale, reports the ABC.It says: Mr Tinkler's Hunter Valley-based Patinack Farm is offloading aroun...