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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...

Fiveandahalfstar, who along with Kiwi star It’s a Dundeel

It's a challenge...Unbeaten Black Caviar must reset the history books if she's to win the $1m Grp 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Mar 12. The mighty mare has been handicapped on 58kgs...

Deep Pockets Required.They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), Ho...

Tony McCoy managed a fitting end to his landmark year by taking both Grade One races at Newbury, including one named in his honour aboard the magnificent Big Buck's.McCoy had remarked how much he e...

Glen Boss, who'll ride the NZer Ocean Park in the Cox Plate, is openly questioning whether Pierro is the horse to beat. Bossy reckons the key dangers are Green Moon and More Joyous.He says: 'Pierro...

A few eyebrows may have been raised when yet another 'half-brother to a champion!' was knocked down for $1.025 million at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale last year. After all, the $27,500-fee C...