Blazing Missile Horse

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...

Who'll ride So You Think in next Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe? Trainer Aidan O'Brien says he'll wait until later in the week before finalising riding plans for the Aussie superstar. He's been...

Irish trainer  Aidan O’Brien  added another chapter to his already remarkable career when he trained the first three across the line in Europe’s premier race, the Group 1 Arc de Triomphe at Chanti...

Australian champion So You Think has been confirmed to take on Europe's best in next month's Group One Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.Trainer Aidan O'Brien recently ruled out a return trip ...

So You Think has returned unscathed to Ballydoyle following his victory in the Red Mills Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.The Australian import was made to work hard to claim his third Group One tri...

What's golng on? Reports from the UK say there's been an alarming betting drift on So You Think before Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. It led to betting on the great French race being temporari...

COOLMORE'S Ballydoyle trainer Aidan O'Brien yesterday had no hesitation in labelling the world's most famous race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in Paris next September as one of the goals for the...