Too Hot To Hold 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...

The washup...Nothing too exciting has emerged from the Shane Dye kerfuffle in Mauritius...He's been suspended for a week and fined 100,000 Mauritian rupees ($3900) over his handling of a horse whic...

Betstar took no time at all to make Dunaden the new $7 favorite to make it two Melbourne Cups. Betstar's Alan Eskander told PPD: 'He was $21 for the Melbourne Cup before today but how can you ignor...

Gai Waterhouse's superstar 3Yo Pierro ($4.40) is struggling to hold down favoritism ahead of tomorrow's Cox Plate, says Matt Jenkins of TAB.com.au. He told PPD: 'He was $1.85 before the Caulfield G...

BLUE Diamond second favourite Rubick will have his final piece of fast work on Monday at Caulfield before Saturday's $1 million race.

Has Black Caviar had enough this time around? Could be. Trainer Peter Moody seems to hold concerns. Reports on Monday say he will monitor the unbeaten filly over the next 48 hours after she she dis...

Trainer John Moloney is hoping his improving Group One record will hold him in good stead with Flying Ruby in the Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphettville.Moloney's last two Group One performances w...