This Is So 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...

This is interesting - the track that's supposed to be the saviour of washed-out turf meetings has fallen victim itself...Yes, Friday's Geelong synthetic meeting has had to be switched to Pakenham. ...

So tiresome...The antics of the Lloyd Williams operation are becoming a bit of a bore. And an embarrassment. Gagging jockey Michael Rodd after the win of Zipping in the Sandown Classic, and the dec...

This morning I read an article by Ray Thomas (Sydney Telegraph 20/9) where he quotes Gary Crispe, from Timeform, as declaring So You Think a better horse than Makybe Diva and Sunline. In the wake o...

Jason Maskiell is trying to resurrect his so-far wasted riding career. He's had 10 months off and returns with a handful of rides at Launceston on Sunday. He failed a drug test at Echuca last year...

This time last year So You Think had just embarked on a campaign that would lead him to his second Cox Plate and this year the son of High Chaparral is in Ireland where he has been installed an odd...

Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar t...