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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...

FIVE ALARM WARNINGIt's become crystal clear.DO NOT BET PREPOST.WHY???Well, let's take the Adelaide Cup. The market was out to blazes. Almost disgracefully so.Most of the more favoured horses were a...

Over Quota has maintained his winning run through the Summer Championship series and landed the final with a hard fought victory at Sandown.The Mark Webb-trained six-year-old defied big odds to lan...

Trainer Rex Lipp hopes enigmatic mare Express Air will solve a stable dilemma after tackling the Sky Racing International Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Express Air is stepping up to 2100 metre...

Trainer Rex Lipp hopes enigmatic mare Express Air will solve a stable dilemma after tackling the Sky Racing International Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Express Air is stepping up to 2100 metre...

Kerrin McEvoy is keeping a lid on expectations for Peck despite the colt's promise making him a potential standout on stamina for Darley Australia.McEvoy will ride the Peter Snowden-trained Peck fo...

Of all the racetrack factors none is as important as the fitness of the racehorse you have under scrutiny for a possible wager. The mighty horses of the past have all been beaten by horses sever...