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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...

Having heavily invested on Helmet in opening Guineas markets (and with a pretty solid crack at an early Guineas-Cox Plate double to boot), you could say I was slightly agitated as the gates crashed...

DAVID Hayes is considering three options with beautifully bred colt  Petrology  after his debut win today in the A Positive More Handicap at Mornington.  Hayes has  Petrology , a three-quarte...

Peter Wells was lost for words on Christmas Day after learning his good friend and fellow jockey Lachlan Fyfe had awoken from a coma.Upon hearing the news, Wells and his family cut short their Chri...

Darren Weir is ramping-up his jumping team’s assault on the famous three-day Warrnambool Carnival, reports Racing Network.

ROSEHILL   RACE ONE Favourite backers had little to concern themselves about after Zumbelina scored handsomely. Although drifting from $1.50 out to $1.75 come start time, she still held 66...

It was a day of mixed emotions for trainer Barry Baldwin after Havatryst produced a bulldog-like finish to win the Simon George & Sons Handicap at Doomben on Saturday.Baldwin credited Maureen Olsen...