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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...

Trainer Robert Price will wait until later this week to decide whether Jordan Valley will take his place in the Group Three Summer Cup at Randwick.The 2400 metre Boxing Day feature was Jordan Valle...

One leading trainer described Turnbull Stakes day at Flemington as the Melbourne spring carnival's "fork in the road".Presumably, he didn't imagine that one of the forks led to a dead-end.For at le...

It's not hard to understand why Luke Nolen is not keen to talk to the media about his Black Caviar ride. He's had enough of the same old questions! So have I. Let's remember one important point - h...

He's ready to put on the Aussie glitz! So You Think is on the brink of making his international debut. Trainer Aidan O'Brien says the champ has settled in well in Ireland. On Saturday, SYT ran 4th ...

How do you feel when confronted with column after column of trackwork gallops in your weekend Sportsman? Like most punters, I guess you're a bit baffled. What do we make of the times each horse cl...

This article continues our series on the thoughts and ideas of professional handicappers around the world. Last month, Craig Milkowskji from www.pacefigures.com came up with a number of questi...