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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...

As he contemplates the prospects of Break Card in Sydney's final stakes race for 2010-11, trainer Gerald Ryan is looking forward to the new season with his younger horses.Rising three-year-olds Fas...

Clarry Conners will chase his first juvenile winner of the season on Saturday but could be denied by the offspring of one of his former stars.The four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer will start...

Just two days after watching Sniper's Bullet win the Railway Stakes in Perth, trainer Tracey Bartley was back home building fences at his Mudgee property.The self confessed boy from the bush had li...