The Victorious 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...

Court moved with plenty of grace on her way to a slashing victory in the Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick on New Year's Day, which is more than can be said for her jockey and trainer who both h...

Court moved with plenty of grace on her way to a slashing victory in the Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick on New Year's Day, which is more than can be said for her jockey and trainer who both h...

DONCASTER winner Kermadec was victorious last start in the George Main Stakes at Randwick on September 15 and he’s favoured to salute again in  Saturday’s  $400,000 Group 1 Caulfield Stakes (200...

Patrick Payne-trained stablemates Capecover and Kerdem have continued their new jumping careers in style with wins at Bendigo on Sunday.The pair gave the former jockey his biggest day as a trainer ...

A paddock accident has claimed the life of champion New Zealand sire Volksraad.A stalwart at Windsor Park Stud, Volksraad topped the New Zealand sires' list eight times between 2001/02 and the 2009...

Caulfield trainer Clinton McDonald says Envious is the fresh horse on the scene going into Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes on his home track and expects the colt to acquit himself well.En...