Vindicator 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...

The bite...Black Piranha, a top contender for Sat's big Doncaster Mile, has returned a positive to the prohibited substance phenylbutazone. Stewards say a swab sample was taken from the Con Karakat...

There has been another cobalt positive in Victoria, with the  Terry and Karina O’Sullivan -trained Darragh  returning a sample with the prohibited substance in its system. The positive swab came ...

Lisa Cropp will front a stewards inquiry on Tuesday after testing positive to the prohibited substance zopiclone in a urine sample last month.Zopiclone is used in the treatment of insomnia and Crop...

A VICTORIAN trainer was yesterday under investigation by Racing Victoria stewards after two of his racehorses tested positive to the banned substance erythropoietin (EPO) and could face disqualific...

Warrnambool trainer Jarrod McLean is facing a 'positive swab' charge arising from a sample taken from Taste Test at the Colac trials on December 21 last year. Stewards allege it contained traces of...

DARLEY AUSTRALIA has made changes to its drugs policy after being ''embarrassed'' by a positive swab at Hawkesbury, for which head trainer Peter Snowden was fined $4000 yesterday, reports The Age/S...