Track And Field 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 final field for Sat's Doncaster Mile (1600m, Grp 1) at Randwick (barrier draw later) has been announced. Rangirangdoo is to cary the #1 saddlecloth. He has 58kgs top weight. A wet track is bein...

Trainer Peter Moody has launched a stinging attack on field sizes at Doomben and believes owners are currently wasting their time starting horses at the track.Queensland Racing Limited is responsib...

Trainer Peter Moody has launched a stinging attack on field sizes at Doomben and believes owners are currently wasting their time starting horses at the track.Queensland Racing Limited is responsib...

Trainer Peter Moody has launched a stinging attack on field sizes at Doomben and believes owners are currently wasting their time starting horses at the track.Queensland Racing Limited is responsib...

  Black Caviar will have plenty of quality opposition in Saturday’s

A field of 16 will face the starter in the Group One $500,000 Kingston Town Classic at Perth's Ascot racetrack on Saturday.The weight-for-age contest, run over 1800 metres, will feature a return cl...