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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 Andrew Noblet can almost taste his first Group One win after Sistine Angel overcame an outside barrier to land the Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington.Following Sunday's barnstorming Group...

Ron Quinton is keen to expand his small team and is hoping one of his stable's best marketing tools, Angel's Breath, sparks interest from prospective owners by continuing her winning run at Randwic...

  Jamie Kah recorded her first Melbourne Saturday victory partnering Sistine Demon to his fifth-straight success in the $80,000 Thomas North Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield. Currently on loan to C...

Ratings, though some scoff at them, are a terrific way of placing a value on each runner in a race. A second way to get a race completely in focus is to assign a price to each runner. But compili...

George Hanlon was one of Australia's most respected trainers who will be remembered for crafting some of the nation's finest stayers.Hanlon, who has died aged 92, was at times vague, but was incred...

George Hanlon was one of Australia's most respected trainers who will be remembered for crafting some of the nation's finest stayers.Hanlon, who has died aged 92, was at times vague, but was incred...