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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...

Globetrotting trainer David Hayes will look to bring down the curtain on the Lindsay Park era with success on the other side of the world with Nicconi in the July Cup at Newmarket tonight (Saturday...

Much hyped import Changingoftheguard has died after complications during gelding surgery at Lindsay Park. Australian interests bought the son of Montjeu for a reported $1 million hoping to win last...

Exciting South Australian galloper Iconic showed he is on track for the feature three-year-old sprints this Spring with an impressive first-up victory at Caulfield. Improved from his autumn camp...

Flemington trainer Nigel Blackiston will play a double hand at Caulfield in a bid to win his second feature race for the week.Blackiston, who prepared last Monday's St Leger Stakes winner Right Of ...

Lee Freedman says last-start Morphettville winner Spatha may have an edge on promising stablemate Baptism as the Hall of Fame trainer attempts to win his third Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield.Fre...

Jameka  heads six horses in Saturday’s  $120,000 Listed Talindert Stakes  (1100m)  at Flemington  that hold a nomination for the following week’s Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield, reports...