S T Wenn 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...

Jockey  Ben Melham  has been asked by Racing Victoria (RV) stewards to provide his phone records as part of the investigation into the  Baron Archer  betting probe. Melham rode Baron Archer when ...

Glyn Schofield says Flying Minstrel has all the attributes needed of a high class racehorse as the colt prepares to put his unbeaten record on the line at Wyong on Sunday."He's a very smart horse,"...

Unbeaten filly Atlantic Jewel, regarded by punters as over the line in the Thousand Guineas, has been well supported in the Cox Plate despite not being nominated for the $3 million race.The Mark Ka...

WITHOUT a standout filly to take the headlines, the Thousand Guineas was drifting quietly into the background, but the potential clash of two unbeaten fillies has it firmly back in the spring spotl...

Peter Moody has the kind of problem other trainers would envy as he plots the path for brilliant filly Black Caviar this spring.Moody, who rates Black Caviar the best horse he has trained on raw ab...

Peter Moody has the kind of problem other trainers would envy as he plots the path for brilliant filly Black Caviar this spring.Moody, who rates Black Caviar the best horse he has trained on raw ab...