Winning Reign 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...

A lack of race fitness and a distance query has Bill Pholi concerned about Royal Reign's prospects in the Listed Brisbane Handicap at Doomben.But the Ballina trainer is happy she is in his stable a...

Nash Rawiller is confident a drop in class for Rainbow Styling can help him claim a rare stakes win riding for the Hawkes racing team at Gosford on Thursday.Sydney's premier jockey rarely rides for...

Malaguerra is all the rage  at $3.20 with TAB to make it back to back group one victories in the $1 million Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot  on Saturday .   "Malaguerra has had two starts si...

Last month I talked about ways and means of studying the form in greyhound races and put forward some ideas to help the form student come to grips with the intricacies of the formlines. I outline...

Joao Moreira riding nine horses at a single meeting for John Size might look like “Dream Team 2.0” but the jockey says his big day out for the champion stable is simply a case of taking the best p...

Blue Diamond winner Miracles Of Life will resume in the Group 3 H.D.F McNeil Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on August 31 after the unbeaten filly impressed in a barrier trial at Morphettville, repor...