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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...

Latest betting market on the Cox Plate, from Betstar, has Whobegotyou on top at $2.60, well clear of Heart of Dreams $7.00.COX PLATE10. Whobegotyou 2.60 11. Heart Of Dreams 7.00 09. Speed Gifted 9....

You're right, mate! US jockey Patrick Valenzuela WILL ride the Yankee sprinter Cannonball in Sat's Grp 1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. He's been given the all-clear after a probe into his US disc...

Pre-post bookmakers have reacted with obvious enthusiasm for So You Think to repeat his 2009 Cox Plate heroics in the wake of a stunning comeback win.So You Think had his quote almost halved to cle...

Zac Purton took advantage of Joao Moreira's absence to draw another two wins clear at the top of the jockeys' championship, and he feels there could be another win in store for one of his winners,...

Placing stakeswinning stayer Light Vision has become a headache for trainer Robert Smerdon.Smerdon said the six-year-old, who at last start finished third to Hissing Sid in the Warrnambool Cup, was...

Placing stakeswinning stayer Light Vision has become a headache for trainer Robert Smerdon.Smerdon said the six-year-old, who at last start finished third to Hissing Sid in the Warrnambool Cup, was...