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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...

Progressive three-year-old Philippi is back in work at Mick Kent's Cranbourne stables with the unbeaten colt on track for a return to the track during the Melbourne Festival of Racing.Philippi curr...

MICK Kent reckons  Pyrroli c  can measure up to spring standard after he posted a first-up win in the A.R. Creswick Stakes at Flemington.  Kent credited Dr Alister McLean for a successful wind o...

  Mick Kent has always wanted to see Philippi run over 2000 metres and he gets his chance this Friday night, when he contests the Group 2 Sportingbet Alister Clark Stakes (2040m). The son of Hos...

TAB Fixed Odds early price movers for Wednesday, February 6KEMBLA GRANGE 06/026 Celtic Prince $4.20 - $3.40 ($800 @ $4.20, $800 @ $3.80)SANDOWN (L) 06/026 Chile Express $8 - $6 ($600 e/w @ $8/$2.55...

Mark Kavanagh-trained colt Sheer Talent heads an impressive list of 14 nominations in Friday night's Grp 2 $220,000 Alister Clark Stakes (2040m). Third in the Australian Guineas (1600m) at his late...

What a cracker for Christmas! PPD Club members for the right message from chief form analyst Brian Blackwell on Friday - the amazing BB tipped last-race Cranbourne winner BON ROCKET $7.90/$...