Triple Hero 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...

We will never know whether  Flame Hero  would have won had he gained clear running last start, but with a suitable step up in trip and against a weaker Happy Valley field, the Peter Ho Leung-train...

Epsom Derby and 2,000 Guineas hero Camelot could take on Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden at Ascot next month. Both were among the 37 initial entries declared for the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth D...

The John Moore-trained  Rewarding Hero  still has plenty to learn and, from a good draw, he can absorb a hike in the handicaps and salute as a banker in the final leg of the Triple Trio at Sha ...

US superstar California Chrome missed out on landing America's Triple Crown at Belmont in New York on Sunday morning. He finished just behind the placegetters in a dead-heat 4th after making a sea...

Hetty Heights has strengthened its grip on favouritism heading into the Provincial Championship Qualifier at Newcastle tomorrow.   The Kim Waugh-trained runner opened at $4.40 late yesterday wit...

The odds won't be anything flashy but three-year-old  Rapper Dragon  should cement his place as one of the rising stars for next season's classics in the Group Three Lion Rock Trophy (1,600m) at S...