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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...

Silvestre de Sousa is long odds-on for the Stobart Jockey Championship after Ryan Moore was advised by a specialist to have "complete rest" having been "a bit sore for the last couple of weeks", ...

Sir Henry Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mismatch in the Susse...

Exciting staying prospect Unsung Heroine will be raced by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum when she joins the David Hayes stable next year.The Group Three winner and Group One English St Leger r...

Leading Cups candidate Speed Gifted is likely to avoid the weight-for-age age stars when he launches his spring campaign for the Freedman stable at Flemington.The former English stayer, who made a ...