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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...

WITH wins in the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate, Bart Cummings has already left an indelible mark on this year's spring carnival, and the renowned trainer will have a big impact on the Melbourne Cup e...

Betting fever has swung into high-heat mode on the Caulfield Cup with just 24 hours to go before the field jumps away...Luca Cumani's much-hyped Cima De Triomphe is attracting big support, though s...

Spring sunshine deserted Sydney for Melbourne Cup day but fortunately umbrellas were not needed as more than 20,000 people ventured to Randwick.Rain had soaked Sydney on Monday night and into Tuesd...

Four-year-old The Zeebac can complete a meteoric rise this campaign and start the new year with a win in the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Eligible for class one races at the start of his pre...

Four-year-old The Zeebac can complete a meteoric rise this campaign and start the new year with a win in the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Eligible for class one races at the start of his pre...

BRISBANE racing officials are making radical preparations for the state's biggest racing event for many years when the world's best horse, Black Caviar, takes on seven rivals in Saturday's group 1 ...