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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...

Trainer Ricky Maund will watch General Truce's bid to give him his first Group One win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on television at another race meeting.Maund, 38, has had limited Gro...

Is that egg on your face, sir? Stewards have given Michelle Payne the all-clear over her ride on Rebel Truce at Sandown-L on Jan 23. But they reckon she made a mistake in not taking the horse to th...

Oh, how can they doubt sweet Michelle? Melbourne's #1 female jockey Michelle Payne will front stewards on Tuesday as an inquiry continues into her ride on Rebel Truce at Sandown Lakeside on Jan 23....

General Truce well and truly exceeded the expectations of trainer Ricky Maund and the gelding's owners when the home-bred scored a shock win in the Group Three Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington.The B...

General Truce well and truly exceeded the expectations of trainer Ricky Maund and the gelding's owners when the home-bred scored a shock win in the Group Three Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington.The B...

The Blue Diamond puzzle will become clearer after Saturday when three of the top five fancies clash at Caulfield.Secession, the early Diamond favourite at $7 with TAB Sportsbet, will go head-to-hea...