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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...

Sydney's wet weather has Scone trainer Luke Griffith looking forward to Saturday's Randwick meeting where he has mudlark With A Chance engaged.Track manager Dave Hodgson said the surface was heavy ...

Sydney's wet weather has Scone trainer Luke Griffith looking forward to Saturday's Randwick meeting where he has mudlark With A Chance engaged.Track manager Dave Hodgson said the surface was heavy ...

Can the 'master blaster' Bart Cummings sneak a late hot chance into the Golden Slipper? We'll know on Saturday. That's when Bart unveils the unraced Skorost in the Grp 2 Todman Stakes (1200m). Skor...

Paul Snowden, stable-foreman for Darley in Melbourne, has urged punters not to be too harsh when assessing the form of Albrecht before Saturday's Australian Guineas. Last year's runner-up in the Gr...

John O'Shea has booked Melbourne jockey Craig Newitt to ride Chairman's Handicap winner Jessicabeel in the Saturday week's Grp 1 Sydney Cup at Randwick. Craig Williams rode Jessicabeel to her stron...

Jockey Ben Melham has been given the chance to score the biggest win of his career after replacing the suspended Damien Oliver aboard the Danny O'Brien-trained Placement in the Oaks, reports The Ag...