Paddy Pilley 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...

Trackwork will tell Darren Smith where three-year-old Testarhythm is best placed to enhance a comeback record at Rosehill on Saturday.Testarhythm is entered against older horses in the $100,000 Win...

With the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes in mind, Peter Moody is looking for further improvement in Reward For Effort's race manners in Sunday's Blue Diamond Prelude for colts and geldings at Caulfi...

With the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes in mind, Peter Moody is looking for further improvement in Reward For Effort's race manners in Sunday's Blue Diamond Prelude for colts and geldings at Caulfi...

A friend once told me that many years of betting had taught him one thing: Never bet progression unless you can make a profit betting level stakes, and have a selection plan that returns a high pe...

A friend once told me that many years of betting had taught him one thing: Never bet progression unless you can make a profit betting level stakes, and have a selection plan that returns a high pe...

A friend once told me that many years of betting had taught him one thing: Never bet progression unless you can make a profit betting level stakes, and have a selection plan that returns a high pe...