Turned Loose 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...

Almindoro gets the chance to vindicate trainer Steve Richards' judgment he is a true Classic type when he lines up in Saturday's blue-ribbon Victoria Derby.Almindoro is the first Redoute's Choice R...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Trainer Mike Moroney has called for protocols to be put in place to avoid repeating the risk of a disaster when adverse weather threatens a race meeting.Moroney said he was amazed the Newmarket Han...

Steve Ahern was one of Britain's greatest punters. He was making millions of pounds in profits back in the 50's and 60's from his betting forays and rose from being a penniless schoolboy betting i...

In the racing world there are some people whose opinions you respect without question and one such person, in my opinion, is Geoffrey Hutson. I first met Geoffrey via an Internet forum and was im...

I have always thought that life is unfair in one particular instance. It is unfair so far as its longevity is concerned. We don't get long enough. Human beings have been saying this for as long as...