Sizzling Sun 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...

áLast night as the witching hour stole upon me - its approach masked by the sound of raindrops flung from the clouds in wretched pacts of ankle-deep treachery (a month's worth drenched Melbourne in...

Christian Reith is hoping sunshine doesn't thwart his opportunity at reuniting with Rain Affair in Saturday's All Aged Stakes at Randwick.Reith has been given the call up to partner Rain Affair in ...

A Group One victory in the TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday would bring great satisfaction to top jockey Corey Brown.Brown has already won a TJ Smith on popular sprinter Apache Cat four years ago but sa...

Christian Reith has been given the nod to partner exciting sprinter Rain Affair in the All-Aged Stakes with trainer Joe Pride keeping one eye on the weather and the other on a possible rival."It's ...

Exciting sprinter Rain Affair came out on top in his much-publicised first foray into stakes racing but did so by just a narrow margin in a thrilling Group Three Missile Stakes at Randwick.Rain Aff...

A wet track is likely to delay trainer Brian Smith's hopes of evaluating whether General Purple can measure up as a Brisbane winter carnival contender at Eagle Farm.Steady rain has forced Eagle Far...