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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...

Best of luck to Chris Munce as he battles cancer. News broke today that Brisbane's champion jockey has throat cancer. Munce noticed a lump in his throat three months ago when visiting the dentist. ...

Apprentice Alex Stokes, one of three riders involved in a provincial race fall at the weekend, is hoping to ride on Tuesday.Stokes was treated for shock following a fall at Newcastle on Saturday wh...

Dr Good Habit  has been through the mill lately, with his stamina tested in the classics but a return to his best distance in the Chan Trophy (1,600m) at Sha Tin looks just what the doctor ordere...

Trainer Mike Moroney believes Glistening can give jockey Stathi Katsidis a winning comeback in the Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm at what could be the former English stayer's last Australian run ahea...

Trainer Mike Moroney believes Glistening can give jockey Stathi Katsidis a winning comeback in the Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm at what could be the former English stayer's last Australian run ahea...

There's probably nothing more depressing than hitting a losing run at the races. Well, maybe losing your job while holding a $250,000 mortgage could be considered a little more depressing, but you...