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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...

The ode that accompanies this article may be sung to Beethoven's Choral Symphony or the lesser - known Elegy in F Minor by Poulenc, Though a requiem would be more appropriate, a requiem to the enj...

IF IT'S possible to sound diffident about gaining the opportunity to win a $2.5 million prize and with it one of Australia's most celebrated races, then Seymour trainer Shannon Hope did so yesterda...

It is always great to see someone outside the usual suspects like Freedman, Waterhouse, Hayes, Snowden, Cummings and the new boys on the block in Moody and Price win a top race. This year the Great...

It is always great to see someone outside the usual suspects like Freedman, Waterhouse, Hayes, Snowden, Cummings and the new boys on the block in Moody and Price win a top race. This year the Great...

Improving three-year-old Dusty Star has boosted his Australian Guineas claims with an all-the-way win in the Group Two D'Urban Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Peter Morgan was in awe of the performance...

Serious form work is a fascinating part of horseracing. I have often mentioned to friends that I like the unravelling part of racing more than the betting but I also love the staking part of the ho...