Very Grateful 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...

Good to see trainer Mick Kent giving Brad Rawiller a deserved ovation. He reckons Brad is totally under-rated. Mick, of course, gives Brad many rides and he's one of the jockey's top supporters. He...

An "extremely thankful" John Moore planned on breaking open a celebratory bottle of champagne last night after the Hong Kong Jockey Club relaxed compulsory retirement rules for trainers, adding p...

 Jake Noonan is off to the UK and will be based with trainer Andrew Balding at Kingsclere in Berkshire, near Newbury racecourse. The young rider is not expecting to set the world on fire in Englan...

Peter Snowden is stepping down from his post as the head trainer for Darley Australia and will set up a base in Sydney with his son Paul. Snowden will remain in his current position until the end...

Wendy Walter has today announced she will cease to operate her training business from July 5. Speaking to her owners on her late husband Guy Walter’s website, Wendy says the loss of Guy as the ke...

DARLEY expects to announce a successor to Peter Snowden “sooner rather later”, says Racing Network. Henry Plumptre, the Australian Managing Director of Darley, said an announcement would not be “...