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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...

Boom Gold Coast star Shoot Out and top mare Typhoon Tracy are sharing early favoritism for Sat's Dato Tan at Moonee Valley. TAB Sportsbet has them at $2.80 (7/4). In the McEwen Stakes, the former W...

Not the best, so he's out...Well-fancied Sniper's Bullet is out of Sat's Grp 1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. Trainer Tracey Bartley says the 6YO has an elevated white cell count. In the absen...

Trainer Peter Moody says Typhoon Tracy is forward enough to extend her unbeaten record to six in Saturday's JJ Liston Stakes at Caulfield.But the Caulfield trainer admitted he was surprised that th...

Trainer Peter Moody says Typhoon Tracy is forward enough to extend her unbeaten record to six in Saturday's JJ Liston Stakes at Caulfield.But the Caulfield trainer admitted he was surprised that th...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five Group One races, will re...