This Little Light 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...

Atlantic Jewel could be back in light work by the end of the month with Mark Kavanagh reporting that the unbeaten mare is making good progression from her spring-ending injury.The superstar daughte...

The Mike Moroney-trained Shenzhou Steeds made light work of his 58kg impost with an exhilarating victory in Saturday's Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) at the Sunshine Coast.Jockey Eddie Wilkinson team...

In-form stayer Light Vision has history against him as he attempts to improve his Melbourne Cup prospects through Wednesday's Geelong Cup (2406m).The five-year-old has 57.5kg but only Craftsman wit...

Young Canberra trainer Matthew Dale believes his comeback to racing is starting to gain momentum and he is hoping Gathering Light will continue the roll at Randwick on Wednesday.Gathering Light is ...

El Segundo will be given a quiet few days leading up to the Carlyon Stakes after coping well with his morning workout at Moonee Valley.The multiple Group One winner has not raced since his 2007 Cox...

El Segundo will be given a quiet few days leading up to the Carlyon Stakes after coping well with his morning workout at Moonee Valley.The multiple Group One winner has not raced since his 2007 Cox...