Way Beyond 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...

Two horses won at 12/1 and 50/1 in the same Sydney spring. Neither was a fluke, and neither was a secret. The reasons were sitting in the form guide the whole time, in plain sight, for anyone who s...

Outstanding mare Alverta will begin her final racing campaign in the toughest way possible, against champion Black Caviar in Saturday's TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.Trainer Paul Messara is realistic...

Consistent sprinter Beyond Pardon will back up from a Moonee Valley victory as the top qualifier in the All-Victorian Sprint Final at Flemington.Trainer Robert Smerdon said the $150,000 was too tem...

It's going to be a VERY WET track for Warwick Farm on Saturday...Latest reports say the track is currently under water! No wonder - torrential rain has caused minor flooding and transport chaos in ...

Wagga Cup winner Sainthood is after the Epsom Hdcp...Trainer Rick Worthington says Sainthood will now be spelled and then return for a prep aimed at the Epsom in the spring. He says: 'The horse des...

Sincero isn't ready to return a peak campaign rating at Scone but trainer Stephen Farley isn't fazed heading into the richest race over the two-day carnival.Sincero, on a run of six straight wins, ...