Red Top 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...

Anthony Cummings seems quietly confident he has a potent Melbourne Cup prospect with Red Lord. The 6YO gelding broke his neck last summer during his spell but AC reckons he has come back a stronger...

UK trainer Ed Dunlop has not ruled out Red Cadeaux from having a crack at the Melbourne Cup. He says: 'He ran a very good race on unsuitable ground at Deauville and his next race will be the Irish ...

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 ...

The owner speaks! Dunaden's mega-rich owner Sheikh Fahd Al Thani reckons Pommy invader Red Cadeaux and not well-fancied Americain is the main threat to his champion stayer grabbing a back-to-back w...

Red Cadeaux, close-up 2nd in last year's Melbourne Cup, is having his final UK race on Thursday night before heading to Australia for another crack at the Cup. Ed Dunlop's tough 6YO was beaten a no...

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...