Travel Wise 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...

A look at the results of 54 races on one recent Saturday showed that 36 races (66 per cent) were won by horses whose starting price was 5/1 or under. A total of 45 races (83 per cent) were won by ...

Well, wasn't yesterday a breath of fresh air for the Pensioner Plan with the Revised Pensioner Plan starting off with six bets for 4 collects totaling 10.8 units. Although Journey was a recommended...

Well, wasn't yesterday a breath of fresh air for the Pensioner Plan with the Revised Pensioner Plan starting off with six bets for 4 collects totaling 10.8 units. Although Journey was a recommended...

MICK Price's stylish filly Samaready firmed further yesterday as a hot favourite for the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield this month, but Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse says she is confid...

Michael Walker  stands on the precipice of riding 100 winners in a season in Australia for the first time, reports racing.com. With 98 winners to his name for the current season, the three-time ...

Tom Miscannon might live in Florida, but he is midway through a trip that will see him visit more racetracks in south-east Australia in three weeks than most Victorians will see in a year.  It is...