The Top Bar 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...

Gerald Ryan is convinced Top Drop doesn't handle wet tracks but needs to kick-start the colt's preparation at Canterbury to keep the Golden Rose option alive.Top Drop was scratched from The Rosebud...

Gerald Ryan is convinced Top Drop doesn't handle wet tracks but needs to kick-start the colt's preparation at Canterbury to keep the Golden Rose option alive.Top Drop was scratched from The Rosebud...

Gerald Ryan is convinced Top Drop doesn't handle wet tracks but needs to kick-start the colt's preparation at Canterbury to keep the Golden Rose option alive.Top Drop was scratched from The Rosebud...

Gerald Ryan is convinced Top Drop doesn't handle wet tracks but needs to kick-start the colt's preparation at Canterbury to keep the Golden Rose option alive.Top Drop was scratched from The Rosebud...

Gerald Ryan is convinced Top Drop doesn't handle wet tracks but needs to kick-start the colt's preparation at Canterbury to keep the Golden Rose option alive.Top Drop was scratched from The Rosebud...

The PPD Club’s ImpactPro ratings have been accurately pinpointing value winners since 1995 – and the ratings just keep on producing winner after winner. On Thursday (Oct 24), eight races were as...