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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...

Leon Macdonald has confirmed that well-fancied Rebel Raider is OUT of the spring carnival. The Derby-winning 4YO was to have run in Sat's Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington but now he faces surgery t...

Veteran jockey Gerald Mosse and new boss Manfred Man Ka-leung can get their partnership off to a flying start and help punters land a big Triple Trio when  Motif  returns from injury at Sunday's s...

The Astronomer faces test to determine fate of Qld bid Posted @ 07:29:00 EST TRAINER Guy Walter says The Astronomer must win Saturday's Hawkesbury Guineas to warrant a trip to the Queensland Guinea...