What A Cross 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...

David Hayes is optimistic Cross Street can go one better than he did first-up with a win at Sandown on Wednesday.Cross Street was beaten a neck when runner-up to Verdasco over 1200m at Moonee Valle...

áLike a Bird - but what sort?Leica Falcon hasn't won for about 4 years. He ran a blinder in Makybe Diva's third Melbourne Cup.Some felt he should have won it.Last (24th) to fourth in the straight.H...

Frankel's younger brother Noble Mission did his Classic prospects no harm with a gutsy display to take the Newmarket Stakes.Tom Queally had nowhere to go at one stage on the 7-4 favourite in what d...

  WHILE Chris Waller dominates Sydney racing at the top end...

Saturday’s Group 2 $175,000 Missile Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick is a definite sign spring is rapidly approaching, reports Racing Network. An outstanding set of 16 nominations has been receiv...

In last month's issue of this magazine I outlined the 10 basic steps I use when analysing the form as published in  the Wizard. Using the Wizard's ratings of the various horses' actual performan...