Warrior Of War 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...

Most punters bet each-way on the wrong horses. This episode explains when each-way betting actually pays — short prices, small fields — using Don Scott's and Roger Dedman's thinking, plus the value...

Shoot Out blotted his perfect Randwick record first-up but an impressive gallop on Tuesday has John Wallace optimistic the gelding can return to form on Saturday.Shoot Out worked on the dirt at Ran...

The summer target for Lyncean Academy will be determined by how he performs over 1400 metres at Rosehill on Saturday.The Villiers Stakes (1600m) on December 19 and the Summer Cup (2400m) a week lat...

The summer target for Lyncean Academy will be determined by how he performs over 1400 metres at Rosehill on Saturday.The Villiers Stakes (1600m) on December 19 and the Summer Cup (2400m) a week lat...

Jarrod Fry had his best day in the saddle at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he landed his first Melbourne double including the Travis Harrison Apprentices Cup aboard Belscenica.Fry, 21, who had rid...

Jarrod Fry had his best day in the saddle at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he landed his first Melbourne double including the Travis Harrison Apprentices Cup aboard Belscenica.Fry, 21, who had rid...