Unusual Secret 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...

Blake Shinn was the subject of an unusual protest at Canterbury on Wednesday for accidentally hitting rival Josh Parr's mount across the nose with his whip.Shinn won theraces.com.au Handicap (1550m...

Like me, I suppose most of you at some stage have declared that a jockey has hooked up your horse - the one you bet on, that is. Whether he did or not is rarely known, except by the jockey. In t...

Jameka  was always going to have to be exceptional to win this year’s Melbourne Cup from the moment the weights came out. Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter assigned the daughter o...

The Group 1 Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes (1800m) may officially herald the start of the 2012 Spring Racing Carnival on Saturday week at Caulfield, but a race on the support card may be more...

CAULFIELD: Melbourne Racing Club Saturday October 15, 2011 Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)Rail Position: Out 6m Entire CircuitTrack Condition: Dead 4Race 1 - 11:30AM Yellowglen Plate (1400 METRES...