Tukurua 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...

Giant filly Lunar Lights is on trial for Group One races in Adelaide and Sydney at the Sandown meeting on Wednesday.The daughter of Bianconi and the unraced Encosta De Lago mare My Fair Lago goes s...

Giant filly Lunar Lights is on trial for Group One races in Adelaide and Sydney at the Sandown meeting on Wednesday.The daughter of Bianconi and the unraced Encosta De Lago mare My Fair Lago goes s...

Distinctive white filly The Opera House will have a barrier trial at Gosford on Monday before trainer Kris Lees decides where the three-year-old races next.The Opera House has only had two starts f...

Colac trainer Bill Cerchi is daring to dream with Diamonds At Dusk who will be on trial at Caulfield for a start in next month's Group One Goodwood Handicap.Cerchi, who has been training for 28 yea...

Seasoned traveller Zavite will return to Tasmania this summer to take care of some unfinished business in the Hobart Cup.In February this year the Anthony Cummings-trained gelding was beaten a head...

TRAINER Leon Macdonald expects to be spending quite some time in Melbourne in the spring as he readies early Melbourne Cup fancy Rebel Raider for his campaign, but the Adelaide horseman will be rep...