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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...

Well, here we go: the carnival is starting to warm up. This weekend the races at Caulfield and Rosehill are starting to tantalize serious punters. How is Tickets, a major player in the Autumn, goin...

Peter Moody could have a better guide as to how his Spring arsenal is shaping up after tomorrow’s barrier trials at the Cranbourne Training Complex. Moody has accepted with a strong team of poten...

THERE'S a simple reason Chris Munce has wasted so hard to ride out-of-sorts All Too Hard in the George Main Stakes at Randwick tomorrow - he has no doubts the colt is a Group 1 winner in the making...

Champion Irish trainer Willie Mullins jetted into Melbourne overnight and headed straight to the TAB International Horse Centre at Werribee this morning to check on the progress of his Spring Car...

ALLAN Sharrock is happy to gamble the Australasian fillies are better than their male counterparts heading into tomorrow's Queensland Derby, where the New Zealand trainer will start Shez Sinsationa...

KING of the kids Gerald Ryan says he's barely scratched the surface of his group of promising youngsters, reports Matt Stewart in the Melbourne Herald-Sun.His report says: Ryan has been the trainer...