Sunny Rain 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...

LAST season's top two-year-old Manhattan Rain returned to the trial track at Rosehill yesterday with a victory against older horses, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: The Gai Waterhouse-tr...

Good news for the Stradbroke Day...Brisbane's weather was brightening up on Thursday afternoon. The rain went away and was replaced by mostly sunny skies. As evening fell, there was no sign of rain.

A surprise return to sunny skies has dramatically boosted the prospects of the Doomben 10,000 meeting going ahead on Saturday.Doomben was considered in grave doubt following almost 300 millimetres ...

A surprise return to sunny skies has dramatically boosted the prospects of the Doomben 10,000 meeting going ahead on Saturday.Doomben was considered in grave doubt following almost 300 millimetres ...

Jockey Ben Melham has been given the chance to score the biggest win of his career after replacing the suspended Damien Oliver aboard the Danny O'Brien-trained Placement in the Oaks, reports The Ag...

A sunny, windy day on Friday has buoyed the spirits of trainer David Vandyke but Metropolitan fancy Lamasery is still not a certain starter in the staying feature.Vandyke had planned to inspect the...