Illusion Of Light 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...

Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy is bringing his Grp 1-winning colt Toorak Toff back to racing on Saturday. He's in the the Red Tempo Handicap at Flemington on his way to next month's $1 million Magic Millio...

From NEIL FRANKLYNABEAUTIFULRED3f : Trainer : Graeme & Debbie Rogerson8 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Good : SlowThis sprinter/miler has been ...

RED Cadeaux  has arrived in “stupid good form” as he embarks on a fourth bid for the Melbourne Cup.  The UK-based iron horse is one of 19 international horses that arrived on Saturday at the We...

In-form jockey Corey Brown has all but committed himself to riding top New Zealand galloper Red Ruler in the Caulfield Cup.Brown was impressed with the John Sargent-trained four-year-old who finish...

There will be no early night for Chris Waller ahead of the first day of the Randwick carnival with the leading trainer to saddle up PJ Bell Stakes favourite Red Tracer at Canterbury on Friday.The L...

Former New Zealander Red Square will be looking to firm up plans for next month's Geelong Cup when he stretches out in distance to 1800 metres for the first time at Sandown on Wednesday.A last star...