Camille Houlgatte 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...

Rain and poor visibility have forced the abandonment of the final five races at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.The track was downgraded to a slow (6) after the opening event but the meeting was called off...

Heavy rain has forced the cancellation of Saturday's Eagle Farm races.The meeting, which was to feature the Listed Falvelon Handicap (1200m), was called off after the track was declared unsafe foll...

The Group Three George Moore Stakes fell victim to the weather for the second week running following a torrential downpour and has now been abandoned.The final three races at Eagle Farm on Saturday...

The Group Three George Moore Stakes has been transferred to next week after Saturday's Eagle Farm meeting had to be abandoned after only two races following damage to the track.Stewards called the ...

Queensland Racing stewards abandoned Monday's Eagle Farm meeting after the first race following advice from senior jockeys who considered the track unsafe.Stewards posted a heavy nine rating at 8am...

Efforts to reschedule Saturday's Warwick Farm races have failed and the meeting has officially been abandoned.Heavy rain throughout the week and again overnight left surface water on the track maki...