The Tank 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...

Poor runs from Scenic Blast and Takeover Target in the July Cup at Newmarket overnight. Scenic Blast's performanc ewas woeful. He sat back in the first 800m but when Steven Arnold asked him to 'go'...

Robert Smerdon is eyeing a Cox Plate bid with super filly Mosheen. And there's no chance she will run in the Oaks at Randwick. Smerdon and owner Phil Sly reckon Mosheen has done enough this time ar...

How do experts around the world look on the business of betting? In this special article, Denton Jardine takes a look at the writings of some eminent international authorities. This is how they go...

Promising four-year-old Vigor is Perth-bound after racking up two consecutive wins at Flemington.Trainer Danny O'Brien said he had plenty of options for the O'Reilly gelding in the west including t...

Newmarket Handicap (1200m) winner Shamexpress

Trainer Jeff Caught has warned that Melbourne-bound Falino still has further room for improvement ahead of his second-up assignment at Eagle Farm.Caught said he had deliberately "left something in ...