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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...

It's El Segundo time again, but can the ageing star make a winning return to racing? It's the BIG question. Latest reports say the 2007 Cox Plate superstar may make his comeback as early as Saturda...

Comeback mare  Commanding Jewel  was surprisingly beaten at the Cranbourne trials on Monday morning. Ridden by Damien Oliver,  she was beaten more than a length into second place, but trainer Leon...

STAR apprentice Patrick Moloney walked from hospital yesterday eager to begin the final phase of his comeback, reports Racing Network. Moloney, the leading apprentice both in the city and Stat...

TODAY'S meeting at Caulfield may be just another midsummer fixture but for apprentice Jason Maskiell it's another vital stepping stone to re-establishing himself in Victoria's jockey ranks, reports...

For trainer Dixie Solly the wait has been worth it to see former star galloper Noble Steed on the verge of making his racetrack return in the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.Solly, who train...

For trainer Dixie Solly the wait has been worth it to see former star galloper Noble Steed on the verge of making his racetrack return in the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.Solly, who train...