Will To Live 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...

With James McDonald suspended, replacement rider Michael Rodd

Glen Boss reckons trouble-plagued import Changingoftheguard is at his best for the Melbourne Cup. After a long workout on 'Guard' at Sandown, Boss declared his Melbourne Cup tilt was on target. He...

Trainer David Hayes says Changingoftheguard has him guessing heading into the autumn but was thrilled with how he competed against another English stayer, Our Aqaleem, in an exhibition gallop at Sa...

Trainer David Hayes says Changingoftheguard has him guessing heading into the autumn but was thrilled with how he competed against another English stayer, Our Aqaleem, in an exhibition gallop at Sa...

Cox Plate favourite So You Think has tuned up for his Underwood Stakes assignment with a strong gallop at Moonee Valley.The four-year-old had a workout with stablemate Moatize between races at the ...

Not so shocking...Jockey Michael Rodd has been pleased by Melbourne Cup winner Shocking's recent trackwork in prep for Sat's Australian Cup. He says: 'His last run suggested he's not far off his ma...