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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...

There's been early money for Calming Influence at Rosehill on Saturday, according to the latest price changes from TAB.

Trainer David Payne has certainly picked a tough assignment for Secret Delight to resume racing in Sat's Grp 2 Light Fingers Stakes but that hasn't stopped tab.com.au customers throwing their suppo...

It was only fitting that the Group I ATC Coolmore Classic should be won by the progeny of a Coolmore based sire with Encosta de Lago mare Aloha delivering victory for leviathan owner breeder Gerry ...

A filly with a close maternal connection to a Golden Slipper winner and a Victoria Derby hero ran the fastest of 12 Sydney two-year-old barrier trials on Monday.Most of the 81 babies who contested ...

Chris Waller has taken blinkers off Iron Lace for Saturday's AJC Australian Oaks to give the filly her best chance at trying to upstage the favourites.Iron Lace won three straight races through Feb...

Magic Millions credit control manager Rebecca Watty will have more than a passing interest when a cheekily named filly makes her race debut in the Dash For Cash Handicap at Sandown.Trainer Rick Hor...