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...

Smart sprinter Grand Duels will be out for successive wins on his home track at Caulfield in Sunday's Listed Christmas Stakes.Trainer Byron Cozamanis had originally been aiming the seven-year-old a...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Kauto Star's bid to land a record fifth successive William Hill King George VI Chase has been put on ice.Paul Nicholls' brilliant chaser will have to wait until Kempton's next jumps meeting on Satu...

Black Type racing at Caulfield on Boxing Day and Flemington on New Year’s Day are the feature Melbourne meetings over the Festive period, but they aren’t the only cards conducted in the urban are...

Craig Williams  hasn’t had to worry too much about Australian racing between  Sandown Guineas Day  and the early part of the new year the past few seasons, reports Racing Victoria. For the past ...

Winners have the last laugh. As we have said on many occasions, they can laugh, while the losers can please themselves. The time I laugh most on the racetrack is not when I back a winner, but when...