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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...

A mare bred to figure in the staying Classics last season will be out to enhance her reputation as a promising sprinter at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Port Macquarie-trained Pentasia will be chasin...

Outstanding apprentice Brenton Avdulla's request to be fast-tracked into senior riding ranks has been cleared by Racing NSW stewards.Avdulla, indentured to Randwick trainer Anthony Cummings, will r...

Flemington racecourse manager Mick Goodie has defended the preparation of the course proper which has come under fire from trainers and jockeys, most notably by trainer Danny O'Brien, for the way i...

Little-known French trainer Mikel Delzangles and his unconsidered Makfi swept aside the superpowers of Britain and Ireland to cause a 33-1 upset in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.Aidan O'Brien field...

Little-known French trainer Mikel Delzangles and his unconsidered Makfi swept aside the superpowers of Britain and Ireland to cause a 33-1 upset in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.Aidan O'Brien field...

Kauto Star has entered racing's record books at Kempton as the first horse to win four consecutive King George VI Chases.The 8-13 favourite, trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Ruby Walsh, demol...