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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...

Exciting five-year-old Flat Chat will crown his meteoric rise through the grades with a crack at the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield.Trained by John Sadler, Flat Chat has won his past four star...

Mick Price says he couldn't be happier with Testa My Patience who is shooting for his fifth straight win at Flemington on Saturday.The Testa Rossa four-year-old made it four in a row when he defeat...

Shoot Out will proceed to the Group One AJC Australian Derby but the surgeon's knife awaits fellow Queenslander Captain Sonador who will miss the Randwick feature.A breakfast discussion between tra...

David Hayes will abandon plans to run  Spillway  in the Caulfield Cup. Hayes said  Spillway ’s ninth behind  Junoob  in last Saturday’s Metropolitan at Randwick raised doubt whether the five-year-...

Bob Ingham's recent prediction to trainer Chris Waller that it was just a matter of time before the prominent owner's famous cerise colours were again being carried to victory on a regular basis ha...

Tavistock's owners have cancelled his flight home from Melbourne and decided to have another go at a Group race there despite his disappointing effort in the Futurity Stakes.Tavistock, who races as...