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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...

PETER Moody said yesterday he was bewildered as to how Victoria's racing powerbrokers could allow a situation where his superstar Black Caviar could wind up being a negative for the industry rather...

PERILS OF EARLY BETTINGIt's become apparent to me over the past months that, more often than not, the top fluctuation in the final forty minutes of betting will belt the ears off the early prices.T...

Favourite Herculian Prince will be given a searching gallop on Wednesday to confirm his place in The Metropolitan.The gelding put in the worst run of his career when last in Saturday's Colin Stephe...

As a wizened Englishman named Mick has been heard to sing, 'Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste'. And a man of wealth and taste I am, of course, if wealth is measured...

Christophe Lemaire has ridden Group One winners all over the world but perhaps none in such unusual circumstances as his Melbourne Cup win on Dunaden.Lemaire arrived in Melbourne 24 hours before th...

Ah, the good old days...Ken Callander reports in the Sydney Daily Telegraph: 'Roy Horton, who rode and trained in the golden years of Sydney racing, showed me the AJC Derby racebook of 1924 at Cant...