Cameron Thompson 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...

It took Australia's most successful jockey Robert Thompson 35 years but he finally achieved one of his long-held ambitions by winning the Group Three Cameron Handicap at Newcastle on Absolutelyfabu...

Two barrier trial hitouts and he's ready to go...Yes, Black Piranha is set to return to racing. The brilliant and gutsy Stradbroke winner will kick off his spring campaign carrying top weight of 60...

Black Piranha is the early fav for Wed's Cameron Hdcp at Newcastle. TAB Sportsbet has the Stradbroke wiiner at $3.20 (9/4). Ahdashim, scratched from Rosehill last Saturday, is on the second line at...

Of all the horses in the Patinack Farm team, John Thompson is most looking forward to the spring campaign of Trusting."Definitely, he's the flag-bearer," the trainer said ahead of the four-year-old...

Of all the horses in the Patinack Farm team, John Thompson is most looking forward to the spring campaign of Trusting."Definitely, he's the flag-bearer," the trainer said ahead of the four-year-old...

Of all the horses in the Patinack Farm team, John Thompson is most looking forward to the spring campaign of Trusting."Definitely, he's the flag-bearer," the trainer said ahead of the four-year-old...