Valued 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...

Chris Waller has taken blinkers off Iron Lace for Saturday's AJC Australian Oaks to give the filly her best chance at trying to upstage the favourites.Iron Lace won three straight races through Feb...

Blinkers to winkers - that's the gear change trainer Kelly Schweida is hoping will help talented colt Epic win the Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas at Caloundra on Saturday.Epic wore blinkers last sta...

Clarry Conners will trial a gear change on Invest when she has her final Queensland Oaks leadup at Doomben on Saturday.A daughter of 2003 Flight Stakes winner Unearthly, Invest will make her Brisba...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh will decide on Tuesday morning whether to make further changes to the gear on Maldivian for Saturday's Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley.Kavanagh said he was still considerin...

Co-trainer Paul Jones is banking on the addition of blinkers giving Onthelookout a rev-up when he resumes at Canterbury on Christmas Eve."The blinkers will be back on to charge him up for the 1100 ...

Superbly-bred colt Rekindled Alliance will wear blinkers for the first time as trainer Paul Messara looks for an edge over his Spring Champion Stakes rivals.Messara said he'd been keeping the gear ...