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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...

Tommifrancs is the fresh horse on the scene and trainer Gerald Ryan believes he can surprise his well-travelled rivals including stablemate and favourite Ready To Lift in the Group Three Summer Cup...

A horse ridden by a South African in silks sporting a famous New Zealand emblem is poised to hijack the $100,000 Australia Day Cup at Randwick on Monday.In-form stayer Tommifrancs is the equal favo...

A horse ridden by a South African in silks sporting a famous New Zealand emblem is poised to hijack the $100,000 Australia Day Cup at Randwick on Monday.In-form stayer Tommifrancs is the equal favo...

Tommifrancs will have few rivals in his bid to give trainer Gerald Ryan a clean sweep of Sydney's summer staying features in the Australia Day Cup.Ryan and jockey Glyn Schofield have combined to ta...

Tommifrancs will have few rivals in his bid to give trainer Gerald Ryan a clean sweep of Sydney's summer staying features in the Australia Day Cup.Ryan and jockey Glyn Schofield have combined to ta...

Gerald Ryan and Glyn Schofield continued their domination of Sydney's summer staying features when Tommifrancs took the tally to four with victory in the Frank Underwood Cup at Rosehill.The Ryan-tr...