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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...

Catkins looks set to attract plenty of interest from punters in the Tristarc Stakes, priced as the $3.20  favourite with TAB.  Sabatini could be the biggest challenger at $4.80 with Amicus also...

Premier Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse says Royal Discretion is going as well as any horse in her stable and is destined for Group One glory this spring.The four-year-old will run first-up in the Gr...

Champion two-year-old Sepoy is on track to resume in next month's Vain Stakes after impressively accounting for a group of older horses in a jumpout at Werribee.Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, the Golden ...

Sydney’s premier jockey in-waiting James McDonald may be forced to wait some more before he is able to get past Nash Rawiller on the premiership table. McDonald has been suspended for six meeting...

From NEIL FRANKLYNBALATRO5m : Trainer - Sandie Cookson10 starts : 2 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : HeavyThis mare has experienced four starts this prepar...

Godolphin colt  Exosphere  has opened the $2.40 favorite to win the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning 1000 metres at Flemington on Saturday.   The Golden Rose winner just heads the all-in market fr...