The Real Man 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...

There is a rare sense of hope among Singaporean fans that they can finally win an international race after nine empty years since Ouzo won the inaugural SIA Cup in 2000. And jockey Robbie Fradd can...

Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Pleasure Gains can win the Achievement Handicap (1,650m) at Happy Valley but even that might now allow him to steal the 1010 Million Challenge from Bullish Boy, repor...

Anyome who doubts Black Caviar's domination of Sat's Grp 1 Newmarket should perhaps listen to the old master Bart Cummings. He says: 'I don't have a Newmarket runner, but if you did have a runner, ...

Unbeaten Samaready is even hotter for Sat's Grp 1 1200m Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield following the barrier draw on Tuesday. The 2yo filly, trained by Mick Price, has drawn gate #8. Betstar has ...

Latest Blue Diamond news from TAB Sportsbet...IMANDO, now $5.00, is the new fav to win the Blue Diamond Stakes following the Blue Diamond Previews. The Commands colt didn't run at Caulfield, but di...

Twelve months ago trainer Leon Morton left Eagle Farm on Stradbroke day with two winners to his name and a dream that he had uncovered a horse who would measure up as a worthy runner in the $1 mill...