Alvaro Apablaza Espinoza Jockey

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...

The well deserved Stradbroke victory by Black Piranha has capped off a brilliant season for Queensland based stallion Clang. His reputation was initially earned by the deeds of Clang's other two G...

Doubtfilly was a bargain-basement buy at $17,500 - now she has the $3.5 million Golden Slipper stakes in her sights.Trainer and part-owner Stuart Kendrick was on the lookout for a "nice horse" to r...

Stuart Kendrick is happy to challenge the odds with his $17,000 filly in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper.As All Too Hard, the blue blood colt owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler emerged as outri...

Talented filly Doubtfilly booked a Magic Millions campaign following her rousing win in the Listed Ascot Handicap (1400m).

DOUBTFILLY'S first-up defeat at Doomben on Saturday will not force any change of plans to head south and she may be joined on the road by her conqueror Grayson Square, reports the Courier-Mail.It s...

I would also like to take this opportunity to convey a quick 'Get well soon' message to apprentice Jake Noonan, who's terrible fall on the ironically named Safe at Flemington last Saturday has left...