The Spitfire 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...

  Ricky Yiu Poon-fai's London Walk finished down the course at his first local run but left all the clues that a better result will come sooner rather than later and he gets his chance for ...

Manighar madness! Punters are going crazy to nab a share of Manighar for Sat's Underwood. The Peter Moody trained import is currently at $2.40 and has been the best backed runner on the card, accor...

Jockey Hugh Bowman signed off from his debut stint in Hong Kong with another winning double on Sunday but no misgivings about his decision not to return for longer. Bowman misses the final two fi...

Cranbourne trainer Greg Eurell has unearthed a successor to his ill-fated Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker...It's the lightly-raced Love For Ransom, impressive winner at Moonee Valley on Sat. Betstar...