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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...

Gai Waterhouse believes Herculian Prince is capable of turning around a year-long lapse in form in Saturday's Group One Metropolitan Handicap.Two inglorious runs in Melbourne so far this campaign p...

Frankel's every move has become significant but there will be added poignancy to his appearance in Wednesday's Juddmonte International at York, reports www.attheraces.com.The world's champion raceh...

Criterion  has been nominated for arguably the world’s most prestigious race, the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (2400m) in France in October. Trainer  David Hayes , who prepares the four-yea...

In this mornings blog I said I would be providing some reasons why some of the top chances in the main races at Scone tomorrow could be considered worth risking (please refer to that blog in conjun...

The racing career of superstar colt All Too Hard is over 

Paul O'Sullivan-trained Disciples Twelve must be the omen tip of the festive season and he can keep his unbeaten record by winning the Yan Chai 45th Anniversary Trophy (1,200 metres) at Sha Tin thi...