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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...

How do you feel about horses that were beaten favourites last start?If you're not familiar with them, you'll usually find a "b" or a "bf" somewhere in a form guide, giving you a clue that the horse...

How do you feel about horses that were beaten favourites last start? If you're not familiar with them, you'll usually find a "b" or a "bf" somewhere in a form guide, giving you a clue that the hors...

How do you feel about horses that were beaten favourites last start? If you're not familiar with them, you'll usually find a "b" or a "bf" somewhere in a form guide, giving you a clue that the hors...

Visitors WelcomeAsk me in October and I'd have said you were mad to even think it.But then - again - a visitor ran second in the Cup.Yes, in 2008 there was an eyelash in it.This year, not much more...

Jockey Chris Munce was in red hot form with a personal best five winners on the seven event program at Doomben.Munce, Brisbane's leading rider and winner of last season's jockeys' premiership, had ...

Emotion flooded the enclosure when Gentle Giant, the horse named after the late Bruce McLachlan, won the inaugural running of the race named in his honour at Caloundra on Saturday.Bruce's son Jason...