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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...

Country trainer Luke Griffith is no stranger to Sydney racing but will break new ground on Saturday with his first metropolitan two-year-old runner.Sutton Princess is already a winner over 900 metr...

Crossthestart has joined a growing list of NZ-bred nominees for the Grp 2 Brisbane Cup (2400m) on June 12 after his emphatic win in the Grp 3 Chairman's Handicap (2020m) at Doomben on Saturday. He'...

Gai Waterhouse has put Dreamscape over the obstacles to switch him on for his clash with weight-for-age heavyweights Racing To Win and Vision And Power in the Group Two Warwick Stakes at Randwick.I...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...

Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...