Trainer

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 racing career of superstar colt All Too Hard is over 

Black Caviar's little brother All Too Hard has rocketed into equal favouritism for next week's $3.5 million Golden Slipper after making his Rosehill debut look all too easy.TAB Sportsbet firmed the...

Lightning Stakes day is shaping as family day for Black Caviar with her unraced half-brother All Too Hard entered for the Listed Talindert Stakes at Flemington.A son of Casino Prince, All Too Hard ...

A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. After all, the $27,500-fee C...

A star is born...That's my conclusion after watching All Too Hard demolish his rivals in the Talindert 1100m at Flemington. Few youngsters can make such a dynamic impression on debut. And no wonder...

Easy does it...All Too Hard is almost back to his 'fit and ready' status and will be racing again in Sydney within a month. That's the word from co-trainer Wayne Hawkes. He says: 'He's bucking his ...