Yukon River 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...

It’s the end of an era for one of the most iconic racing families in Australia with  Fran Houlahan announcing her retirement as a trainer, reports racing.com. After holding a license for 37 year...

Damien Whitchurch interviews The Optimist on one of the master's favourite bets: the ABfield trifecta and its offspring. Damien Whitchurch: This is going to be interesting for me, as although I h...

In this, the final of a three-part series, Heale Yardley looks at how to grade races according to their predictability so as to offer a means for determining relative bet sizes from one race to an...

In this, the final of a three-part series, Heale Yardley looks at how to grade races according to their predictability so as to offer a means for determining relative bet sizes from one race to an...

Damien Whitchurch interviews The Optimist on one of the master's favourite bets: the ABfield trifecta and its offspring. Damien Whitchurch: This is going to be interesting for me, as although I h...

Damien Whitchurch interviews The Optimist on one of the master's favourite bets: the ABfield trifecta and its offspring. Damien Whitchurch: This is going to be interesting for me, as although I h...