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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...

Oozing confidence...That's trainer Mark Riley as he shapes up for Sat's big Grp 1 1600m Railway Stakes in Perth with his top performer Gold Salute. MR says he'd like to think that the favorable Rai...

DESPITE a lacklustre exhibition gallop by All Silent at Betfair Park yesterday, trainer Grahame Begg said the straight-track specialist was on target for Saturday week's group 1 Newmarket Handicap ...

Danny Nikolic's confidence is rising at the right time, and so is his level of success.As momentum builds for the spring racing carnival, Nikolic has revived his fortunes after suspension and contr...

EMERGING apprentices Jordan Childs and Regan Bayliss added to their impressive season’s at Bendigo on Wednesday.   Childs partnered  Royal Island  to win BM 78 and post his 30th winner, one...

Plenty of trainers brimming with confidence for Sat's Brisbane carnival races...Anthony Cummings is very keen on his Doomben Cup pair Miss Darcey and Prima Nova, and Cummings Jnr is certainly in to...

Leading Magic Millions contenders Amorino and Angel Of Mercy are poised to give trainer Gerald Ryan a lucrative pay day.The pair leave Sydney on Monday night bound for the Gold Coast where Amorino ...