Treasure Beach 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...

Aidan O'Brien is poised to have four runners in Saturday's Derby at Epsom, with Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Roderic O'Connor set to wait for the French Derby the following day.The Ballydoyle handler i...

The likelihood of a soft tempo and a replay of the way the Hong Kong Derby was run gives the John Size-trained Fay Fay his chance this afternoon to repel the foreign challenge in the Group One Aude...

Mike Moroney has the spring Cups in mind for his impressive import Glass Harmonium after his demolition job on rivals in the 2200m Eagle Farm Cup. MM hasn't ruled out backing up the bold front-runn...

It was not the result the majority of Britons wanted to see as the Queen's Carlton House failed to match the blistering speed of French interloper Pour Moi in the Investec Derby.Thousands flocked t...