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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...

Chris Waller has won two of the past three Doncasters and he will do everything he can to get Triple Elegance to this year's famous Randwick mile after a dominant Rosehill performance.Triple Elegan...

Trainer Alan Bailey and jockey Glen Colless could be back on the country Cups campaign with gutsy stayer Frozone.Bailey's worst fears with Frozone were realised when the gelding went down by a nose...

Chris Waller has nominated Tromso as the unlikely hero to maintain his unprecedented winning streak at Rosehill.Waller has trained at least one winner at the past 24 Saturday meetings on his home t...

A childhood holiday blossomed into a grown man’s dream as German trainer Andreas Wohler scored a second consecutive success for his native land with Novellist landing the King George VI & Queen E...

Black Caviar's little brother All Too Hard has rocketed into equal favouritism for next week's $3.5 million Golden Slipper after making his Rosehill debut look all too easy.TAB Sportsbet firmed the...

Bart Cummings won't get the chance to further enhance his amazing record of 13 Australian Cups after he didn't accept with last year's winner Sirmione, but his son Anthony might win his first with ...