Summer Wind 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...

Jockey  Damian Lane  will make his return to race riding following a brief stint in the UK when he partners  Summer Wind  at  Ladbrokes Park Sandown on Wednesday . The 22-year-old last rode in Vi...

Promising sprinter Second Effort will be looking to wind up a brief summer campaign with victory in the Listed Doveton Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Clinton McDonald said it was likely that the light...

Trainers Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra are looking to test lightly-raced mare Star Of Giselle as they wind her up for the better spring races.The four-year-old will have only her fifth race start...

Anthony Cummings will know how much Magic Millions firepower he has at his disposal after Randwick's New Year's Day meeting.Cummings is targeting three horses at the Gold Coast racing extravaganza ...

Kerry Parker expects another rise in distance to be a help and not a hindrance to Nextanix in Saturday's Listed Christmas Cup at Rosehill."He's always just been a horse that we thought would get be...

Forecast rain in Sydney has buoyed the confidence of jockey Glyn Schofield ahead of Thursday's Listed Australia Day Cup at Warwick Farm.Schofield partners last start Gosford Cup runner-up Wazn, wit...