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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...

I n-form Randwick trainer John O’Shea is a little wary about running his exciting three-year-old Savvy Nature at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. The last start impressive winner of the Group 3 $150,...

Racing Victoria stewards have charged leading Melbourne trainer Peter Moody in relation to a positive swab taken from one of his runners. Stewards charged Moody with a breach of AR 178 after the tr...

John O'Shea is reserved about the wet-track prospects of the up-and-coming Duke Of Cornwall who will step out at Warwick Farm on Saturday.The three-year-old won on slow going last preparation but t...

Beneteau has eased sharply in Golden Slipper betting following his disappointing performance at Randwick. IASbet.com has him at $11.00 on the fourth line of betting. Hinchinbrook, who easily won th...

Record-breaking New Zealand apprentice James McDonald's book for a much-anticipated Randwick cameo has more than doubled.McDonald, lured to ride in Sydney on Saturday by Randwick trainer John O'She...

New Zealand whiz kid James McDonald's announced himself to Sydney racing with a winning double at Randwick on Saturday, tempered by a suspension and a reprimand for his successful rides.While stewa...