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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...

A good performance from hardy sprinter Captain Bax in the Carrington Stakes will book his plane ticket to New Zealand for the Group One Telegraph Handicap.The Listed Carrington Stakes (1100m) is on...

James Winks will have to produce a gun ride from his wide draw if Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm is to claim Saturday's Group One Emirates Stakes at Flemington with Trusting.Winks said trainer John...

Kerrin McEvoy is relishing his return to Ascot as he prepares to make his Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup debut, reports At The Races in the UK. The popular Australian - who shot to prominence when b...

The wet weather has dented Gary Portelli's enthusiasm about Something Anything's Stradbroke Handicap prospects but lifted his spirits with Allervite in the June Stakes.The in-form sprinter was one ...

The wet weather has dented Gary Portelli's enthusiasm about Something Anything's Stradbroke Handicap prospects but lifted his spirits with Allervite in the June Stakes.The in-form sprinter was one ...

Turffontein has confirmed his trip to New Zealand for the Group One Telegraph Handicap with a win in a barrier trial at Cranbourne.Trainer Anthony Cummings was a long way from the Victorian track i...