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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...

LEE Freedman is confident he can revive the fortunes of last year's one-time Caulfield and Melbourne cups favourite Speed Gifted, believing the hot autumn weather was the horse's undoing when last ...

David Hayes is optimistic he has six-year-old Eagle Falls back to his best to defend his Oakleigh Plate title later this month.The talented gelding will be on trial for the Caulfield Group One spri...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths is prepared to overlook an inconclusive leadup run and remains optimistic that Beltrois can get the job done in The Goodwood at Morphettville on Sunday.Griffiths was hoping...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths is prepared to overlook an inconclusive leadup run and remains optimistic that Beltrois can get the job done in The Goodwood at Morphettville on Sunday.Griffiths was hoping...

T he Danny O’Brien-trained Shamexpress, who was brilliant in winning the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington last March, has pleased the stable in the lead up to the seventh leg of th...

Talented filly City Of Song gets the chance to put two unlucky runs behind her when she contests Saturday's Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield.The two-year-old, by Black Caviar's sire Bel Esprit, ma...