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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...

John O'Shea is keen to target the Group One Stradbroke Handicap with Sea Siren but first hopes to land the Surround Stakes with the exciting filly.Sea Siren handled the step up to stakes company wi...

Sydney's premiership leading jockey Hugh Bowman is far from running scared of star filly Mosheen and is confident Streama has the ability to topple the favourite in Saturday's Vinery Stud Stakes.Th...

Trainer Guy Walter has ruled Streama out of the Group One Doncaster Mile after the filly failed to figure in Saturday's Coolmore Classic.Walter was testing the three-year-old's Doncaster prospects ...

The small field for Saturday's Group One Australian Oaks might have robbed the race of some of its glamour but it has added intrigue when it comes to tactics.There is no noted leader among the eigh...

Flight Stakes winner Streama is among a star studded line-up for Friday's barrier trials at Randwick ahead of a campaign which could culminate in a clash with unbeaten Melbourne filly Atlantic Jewe...

Multiple Group 1 winning mare Streama will have a short Spring campaign in Sydney before being spelled. Trainer Guy Walter told Racing Network that because Streama had an autumn campaign and had ...