The Theme 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 will be a quaddie theme about Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting with three horses entering the program chasing a fourth-straight success.  Lucky Symbol, Kiss Me Ketut and Our Hand of Faith w...

Inconsistency in RacingáI have to agree with the people who contacted me after the final race at Randwick on July 25.How the hell could that horse win? was the general theme of the angry emails. Sp...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club will support a move to introduce a new category of black-type races, so-called Super Group One races. In an Asian Racing Conference session titled "The Pattern: Now and ...

The John Size-trained  Turbo Jewellery  has the form, the draw

RACING Victoria has called for a thorough report on the state of the Werribee track. CEO Bernard Saundry has asked for a full report after the final two races were abandoned following first day ...

Racing and betting is all about 'the angle', right? We're all looking for a new angle on an old theme? Too right Sometimes we think we've found THE angle, but time takes its toll and the angle ...