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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...

When you take a maiden to Newcastle, you'd like to think you'd be taking on lesser opposition, so rival trainers would not have been thrilled to be lining up on Saturday against the half-sisters to...

'Sex and the City' star Sarah Jessica Parker will be a celebrity attraction for Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival. The fashion icon best known as Carrie Bradshaw in the hit TV and film series is c...

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...

Apprentice Daniel Ganderton continued his surge in the Sydney jockeys' premiership with a winning treble at Rosehill on Saturday.With a host leading riders either suspended, injured or riding at th...

More claims about the Danny Nikolic case...The Sunday Age reports that police have found closed-circuit TV footage of a relative of Danny Nikolic collecting winnings on a race that the disgraced jo...

Peter Moody missed out on the half-brother to his champion mare Black Caviar but the trainer still walked away from the Australian Easter Yearling Sale with his pick of the colts.Moody paid $850,00...