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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...

She might only be small but the Pat Carey-trained Donna Madeira showed she had plenty of speed when taking out the Swettenham Stud Dash For Cash Plate (900m) at Sportingbet Park Sandown today.The d...

Unbeaten colt Sepoy has thrashed his rivals in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes to give Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation its most important two-year-old success in Australia so far.The colt was...

Jockey Peter Robl admits there were times when he thought about walking away from racing for good.But a love for the job he has done for more than 20 years and the support of several close friends ...

Imported stayer Muir has claimed a career-high victory in the Group Two Adelaide Cup at Morphettville.One of a group of European stayers purchased from Coolmore by Lloyd Williams, Muir was previous...

Michael Rodd is NSW born and Victorian based but he has picked up the plum Reisling Stakes mount on Military Rose because he is a "Queenslander".Trainer Gillian Heinrich confirmed Rodd had beaten o...

Michael Rodd is NSW born and Victorian based but he has picked up the plum Reisling Stakes mount on Military Rose because he is a "Queenslander".Trainer Gillian Heinrich confirmed Rodd had beaten o...