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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...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver will test the Blue Diamond Stakes credentials of Real Saga when the exciting Sydney colt makes his much anticipated Melbourne debut.Unbeaten in two starts, Real Saga i...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver will test the Blue Diamond Stakes credentials of Real Saga when the exciting Sydney colt makes his much anticipated Melbourne debut.Unbeaten in two starts, Real Saga i...

David Hayes-trained Be That As it May is blazing a winning trail that is giving her sire Halo Homewrecker posthumous recognition.Halo Homewrecker, who died while standing at Swettenham Stud in 2005...

With the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes in mind, Peter Moody is looking for further improvement in Reward For Effort's race manners in Sunday's Blue Diamond Prelude for colts and geldings at Caulfi...

With the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes in mind, Peter Moody is looking for further improvement in Reward For Effort's race manners in Sunday's Blue Diamond Prelude for colts and geldings at Caulfi...

Exciting two-year-old Starspangledbanner has raised the expectations of jockey Vlad Duric only two weeks out from the Blue Diamond Stakes.Duric was gobsmacked when he partnered the Choisir colt to ...