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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...

Guy Walter says the Doncaster is out

Queensland's big wet has forced the abandonment of Saturday's Eagle Farm meeting just a week out from the lucrative Magic Millions race day on the Gold Coast.The decision to call off Eagle Farm was...

GOLDEN SLIPPER PRIZE MONEY ORDER AS AT 2:30pm Saturday 26 March, 2011.1 Satin Shoes F $294,650 Clarry Conners2 Elite Falls F $243,150 John O'Shea3 Smart Missile C $241,150 Anthony Cummings4 Shared ...

A setback prevented Orca from competing in one Derby but everything is falling into place for a crack at another.A grazed knee ended Orca's chances of running in the AJC Australian Derby (2400m) bu...

Guy Walter has been confirmed as the new trainer for European import Basaltico who will add his presence to the major races in Sydney this autumn.The six-year-old was brought to Australia by Luca C...

Guy Walter has been confirmed as the new trainer for European import Basaltico who will add his presence to the major races in Sydney this autumn.The six-year-old was brought to Australia by Luca C...