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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...

MORE Joyous today joins her stablemate Pierro on a Cox Plate campaign when she resumes at Rosehill, where her trainer Gai Waterhouse threatens to add further to her already awesome spring arsenal, ...

Punters are sticking by Fawkner for the Makybe Diva Stakes despite a poor barrier draw today. The former Caulfield Cup winner has firmed from $7.00 to $6.00 with TAB, while Boban remains the $4.20...

Manighar has been one of the best supported runners in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. Opening $4.40 wkith the TAB on Wednesday the seven-year-old has firmed into $3.60 and is cha...

You have to admire Lauren Stojakovic's honesty. Jockeys rarely admit to being anxious before a big race, but the Adelaide apprentice rider conceded to battling nerves earlier this week.Stojakovic l...

Chris Waller capped his rise through the Sydney trainers' ranks with four winners on the final day of the season at Rosehill but it wasn't enough to dampen Peter Snowden's day.Waller's 94 wins for ...

Chris Waller capped his rise through the Sydney trainers' ranks with four winners on the final day of the season at Rosehill but it wasn't enough to dampen Peter Snowden's day.Waller's 94 wins for ...