The Mason 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...

Ben Mason can vouch for training racehorses being a fickle caper.Two days after preparing his first metropolitan winner with Waranga at Eagle Farm earlier this month, Mason broke his left leg which...

Bush trainer Barry Henry is confident he can pull off a masterful performance when former Victorian mare Pray For Me makes her Brisbane debut at Eagle Farm on Monday.Pray For Me was formerly traine...

Australia’s only representative for the Hong Kong International Races, Linton, flew to Hong Kong yesterday, reports Racing Network. He will have 13 days to prepare for the $US2.2 million Hong Kong...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Sue Grills remains adamant favourite Border Rebel is not weighted to win Wednesday's $130,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton.The brilliant sprinter has 60kg, a wide barrier in 11 and a host of smart ...