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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...

Peter Moody seems very keen on having a crack at the Cox Plate with Typhoon Tracy. No wonder. She was absolutely dominant winning the Queen of the Turf 1500m at Rosehill. Moody plans her next start...

A decision to scale down and move to Queensland will reap its reward for former Victorian trainer John Stanton if veteran stayer Molotov is successful at Eagle Farm.Molotov, one of only three horse...

  NOT content with a Melbourne and Caulfield Cup

Flemington hosts its traditional ANZAC Day meeting this Friday featuring the ANZAC Day Stakes and time honoured VRC St Leger. The Listed, $120,000 ANZAC Day Stakes for two-year-olds, a race won i...

Jockey Luke Nolen has compared impressive Flemington two-year-old debutant Golden Archer to 2009 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort who was also trained by Peter Moody.Golden Archer thril...

AUSTRALIAN superstar Black Caviar won't, in all likelihood, get the chance to try to lower English wonder horse Frankel's colours at Royal Ascot, but another champion from Down Under might get the ...