Threw 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...

JUST one week out from jumps racing's most important three days of the year, the sport again kept its nose clean during a series of qualifying trials at Warrnambool yesterday, reports The Age.It sa...

Leading apprentice Jason Maskiell came back to scale bloodied but triumphant after guiding Fast Talker to victory in the opening event at Sandown, the Mahaasin Handicap.The Lee Freedman-trained fil...

Leading apprentice Jason Maskiell came back to scale bloodied but triumphant after guiding Fast Talker to victory in the opening event at Sandown, the Mahaasin Handicap.The Lee Freedman-trained fil...

Winner Take All can earn a late carnival stakes race berth if she can make it four straight city wins on Wednesday.Trainer Bill Prain threw Winner Take All in as a late nomination for the Rose Bay ...

How good is Helmet? What can he produce in the spring? He could be a real superstar. After his stunning Champagne win at Randwick, when he almost threw the race away by ducking out at the 100m, tra...

One minute you're up and the next you're down...Stewards threw cold water on Glen Boss's Cox Plate glory when they suspended him for 10 meetings for careless riding on the winner So You Think. Boss...