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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...

Exciting colt Atomic is unlikely to be a late entry for the Blue Diamond Stakes despite a stunning debut win at Sandown.Trained by Lee Freedman, the impressive looking two-year-old had a growing re...

An exciting list of nominations has been assembled for the first metropolitan three-year-old races of the 2013/14 season at Moonee Valley on Saturday headed by unbeaten Kiwi galloper Cauthen.

Crossthestart has joined a growing list of NZ-bred nominees for the Grp 2 Brisbane Cup (2400m) on June 12 after his emphatic win in the Grp 3 Chairman's Handicap (2020m) at Doomben on Saturday. He'...

The Peter Snowden-trained Albrecht headlines an impressive list of 19 nominations for the Listed $120,000 Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.Runner-up behind stable mate Epaulette in t...

The Australian flag has shone brightly at the world’s richest race meeting with the people’s champion Buffering  producing a career-best performance to capture the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan. The e...

In seven starts for trainer Chris Waller, former French stayer Permit has gone from being a restricted class galloper to Sydney Cup favourite.After he won at his second start for Waller in December...