Bright Day 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...

While Sydney has been battling the big wet for almost two weeks, the opposite is the case in Melbourne. Caulfield Track Manager Jason Kerr this morning told Racing Network he has had just 7.2mls ...

How about that Gai Waterhouse! The all-conquering trainer has the Rosehill carnival by the throat. Well, that's what she reckons. She goes into Golden Slipper day with, dare I say it, bright expect...

Trainer Craig Carmody is confident debutante Six Opinions will prove to be a bargain buy.The two-year-old Royal Academy filly is out of Fusaichi Pegasus mare Tears Roll Down and has her first start...

Trainer Craig Carmody is confident debutante Six Opinions will prove to be a bargain buy.The two-year-old Royal Academy filly is out of Fusaichi Pegasus mare Tears Roll Down and has her first start...

Suspended jockey Craig Williams was entitled to feel heartbroken, but he was trying to look on the bright side."Let's look at the positives," he said after being forced to sit in his own living roo...

Trainer Michael Nolan hopes an older and stronger Gold Rating can provide apprentice Brooke Richardson with her first metropolitan winner at Doomben.However, Nolan concedes the six-year-old's task ...