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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...

Of all the racetrack factors none is as important as the fitness of the racehorse you have under scrutiny for a possible wager. The mighty horses of the past have all been beaten by horses sev...

Apprentice Blake Spriggs hopes its a case of deja vu when he partners six horses for trainer Brett Cavanough at Goulburn on Monday.The last time 17-year-old Spriggs received a call to arms from Alb...

Apprentice Blake Spriggs hopes its a case of deja vu when he partners six horses for trainer Brett Cavanough at Goulburn on Monday.The last time 17-year-old Spriggs received a call to arms from Alb...

Of all the racetrack factors none is as important as the fitness of the racehorse you have under scrutiny for a possible wager. The mighty horses of the past have all been beaten by horses sever...

The race to secure a start in the Melbourne Cup remains the toughest in years with only three of the top 38 ranked horses withdrawn by today's 10am second acceptance deadline. Peter Moody's injured...

Anthony Freedman has really emerged as a training force... His imported stayers, Lucas Cranach and Mawingo, share favoritism for the 2012 Melbourne Cup onTAB Sportsbet's first market, released on T...