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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...

SUPPORTERS of New Zealand mare Daffodil caught bookmakers unaware when she was easily the best-backed runner for the Melbourne Cup at yesterday's Call of the Card at Crown Casino, reports the Sydne...

Red Cadeaux, Mourayan, Unusual Suspect, Modun and Saptapadi were backed to win more than $1 million at Monday's Melbourne Cup 'call of the card'. Betstar boss Alan Eskander says: 'They backed 10, 1...

GEELONG CUP UPDATE (11.15am) BRIGANTIN ($4 into $2.80) favourite but support for other runners today.GATEWOOD ($2.75 to $3) is second pick and $26 in the Melbourne Cup.MALUCKYDAY ($7 into $6.50) to...

Maluckyday - Lexus Stakes winner and runner-up to Americain in the Melbourne Cup - will not race in Melbourne during the autumn. Trainer John Hawkes is giving the promising stayer a light preparati...

Lucky, lucky, lucky...Melbourne Cup runner-up Maluckyday looks likely to return to racing in Sat's Grp 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield. Trainer John Hawkes says he's booking Jim Cassidy for the ride...

Last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Maluckyday is out of the spring carnival because of a virus.Maluckyday was rated one of the leading chances for this year's $6.2 million race at Flemington on No...