Whittaker 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...

Trainer David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

Trainer David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

Trainer David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

What is the most important of all form factors?Now I've got your attention, I confess that this question, posed many years ago by a young journo, has remained a sort of permanent challenge to me.Yo...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winning jockey Jim Johnson is one of seven inductees to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.Two jockeys, two trainers, two horses and one associate will be officially instal...

When it comes to the Sydney Morning Herald's formguide, it's a case of 'big' is best. The newspaper's Friday morning guide is an example of what an all-round formguide should be. It runs to 20 pa...