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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...

Trainer Mick Price is keeping his options open with Light Fantastic who is back in pre-training for the autumn.Price said the four-year-old, who was a top fancy for the Cox Plate early in the sprin...

Contentment  took out the award as the horse who improved his rating the most this season and the John Size-trained gelding can cap a brilliant first campaign with the Sha Tin Mile Trophy this af...

Mick Price says he is a little bit nervous about Light Fantastic maintaining his unbeaten first-up record after the grey drew barrier one for Friday night's Group Two Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valle...

Mick Price says he is a little bit nervous about Light Fantastic maintaining his unbeaten first-up record after the grey drew barrier one for Friday night's Group Two Carlyon Stakes at Moonee Valle...

Veteran trainer Paul Nolan will be an attentive listener when Chris Munce gives a Newcastle Cup assessment of Fantastic Blue at Doomben on Saturday.Munce told Nolan the Group Three Newcastle Cup (2...

It was a race that just about everyone on course, and for that matter everyone around Australia, wanted to see Craig Newitt win on Light Fantastic - but this time there was no fairytale ending.Just...