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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...

Augusta Proud needed every inch of the 1050 metres of Saturdays Listed Dermody Lightning Stakes to earn her first win since the Magic Millions 2yo Classic in March last year, reports breednet.com.a...

There will be two chances to buy a sibling of dual Cox Plate winner So You Think next year.A three-quarter brother will be offered at the New Zealand Premier Sale at Karaka next month while a full-...

THE Leica family will be shooting for what could be a world first when three siblings from the same Corowa stable line up in separate races at Caulfield on Saturday, reports The Age.It says: Rick F...

An empty feed bin was all Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis wanted before committing Black Piranha to an extended Queensland campaign.Black Piranha, rated by his trainer as a tragedy beaten in the Ma...

An empty feed bin was all Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis wanted before committing Black Piranha to an extended Queensland campaign.Black Piranha, rated by his trainer as a tragedy beaten in the Ma...

Trainer Mick Price has the Queensland Oaks as a target for Tasmanian Derby winning filly Betwixt.Betwixt, who is raced by a syndicate of 10 and managed by Sydneysider Graeme Smith, posted her third...