Twenty One All In 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...

Racing Victoria is pleased with the response from international trainers with 25 northern hemisphere horses nominated for the Melbourne Cup including defending champion Americain.Nominations for th...

Racing Victoria is pleased with the response from international trainers with 25 northern hemisphere horses nominated for the Melbourne Cup including defending champion Americain.Nominations for th...

Twenty years on from Dermot Weld’s maiden Emirates Melbourne Cup success and one of his entries for this year’s renewal turned in the Irish St Leger into a procession at the Curragh in the early ...

A DERBY TO SAVOUR OR TO FORGET?There have been great years. 1996 for example. But there are more frequently ordinary years.Now and then a filly strikes. Twenty-one years ago one did. She was except...

It's a tight squeeze for the Caulfield Cup! Twenty-three horses were paid up when Caulfield Cup final acceptances closed on Tuesday morning. The Melbourne Racing Club committee will meet to determi...

COME IN SPINNER...Or sucker?Godspeed. Cost more than you and I can even dream of.We've been told about him for months.How incredibly good he'll be.How good he already IS.Possible champion, in fact....