Young Emperor 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...

Jim Cassidy would be a lot closer to 100 Group One winners if he hadn't knocked back the ride on Kingston Rule in the 1990 Melbourne Cup.Bart Cummings says Cassidy made a bad decision then but is g...

Nearly two decades ago, a young boy in a small public school in country NSW listened on the radio to Darren Beadman booting home the Bart Cummings-trained Kingston Rule to win the Melbourne Cup.Aft...

Ron Quinton would love to be able to teach the young apprentices in his care how to ride like Jim Cassidy, but some things just can't be taught.Eight times Sydney's premier jockey and a Group One w...

A former Melbourne champion jockey is calling Kranji his new home these days, but don't expect to see his name featured among the Singapore riding ranks any time soon, reports the Singapore Turf Cl...

Top bookie Mark Read reckons Kiwi mare Daffodil can win Sat's Caulfield Cup. He says he'll take on the UK pair Kirklees and Cima de Triomphe. Read's predicting a slow pace that will ideally suit Da...

Jim Cassidy continued his remarkable autumn carnival by riding his third Group One winner in as many weeks when Vision And Power claimed the $2 million Doncaster Mile at Randwick.The 46-year-old's ...