Lightning Speed 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...

De Lightning Ridge has smashed the long-standing Randwick 1000-metre record in the Group Two Challenge Stakes in a blistering display of speed reminiscent of her two-year-old days.The now four-year...

Jockey Luke Nolen is as confident as ever as unbeaten champion Black Caviar attempts to etch her name into the record books in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington.Nolen admitted the challenge of com...

Black Caviar is likely to back up in next Saturday's Lightning Stakes after she romped to her eighth Group One success and her 18th consecutive victory in the CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield.The unbeate...

Lightning Handicap hopeful Wasted Emotions is primed to atone for his flop in last year's Listed race.The seven-year-old is racing first-up in the 1100-metre feature at Randwick on Saturday.Wasted ...

Lightning Handicap hopeful Wasted Emotions is primed to atone for his flop in last year's Listed race.The seven-year-old is racing first-up in the 1100-metre feature at Randwick on Saturday.Wasted ...

Like everyone else, Southern Speed's trainer Leon Macdonald is in awe of Black Caviar.Unlike everyone else he has a horse who could possibly test the champion over the 1400 metres of Saturday's Gro...