The Perfect Match 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...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva will be covered by champion Vinery stallion More Than Ready next season.Makybe Diva, whose first son by Galileo was sold for $1.5 million at this year's ...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva will be covered by champion Vinery stallion More Than Ready next season.Makybe Diva, whose first son by Galileo was sold for $1.5 million at this year's ...

THE plaudits kept rolling in for Singapore sprinting sensation Rocket Man yesterday, but whether he beats Australian star Takeover Target tomorrow or not, the man who should know expects the mouth-...

An Australian thoroughbred grand prix, match racing and an Australian country racing championship series are mooted as part of Racing Victoria Ltd's (RVL) vision for thoroughbred racing in the stat...

Queensland trainer Robert Heathcote is backing Woorim to match the finishing sprint of the heavyweights in the Group One Emirates Stakes at Flemington.A noted backmarker, Woorim returned to his bes...

A change in training routine and some new gear have transformed By The Way, an injury-prone galloper chasing a maiden black type win at Flemington on Saturday.By The Way will line up in perfect hea...