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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...

Punters are expected to be given a clearer betting picture of the Sportingbet Cox Plate this weekend with a number of key races in Melbourne and Sydney likely to impact the early market.Eleven Cox ...

THE plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

Jockey Luke Nolen says five-time Group One winner Typhoon Tracy is on track for next month's Cox Plate and has warned punters not to drop off.The Peter Moody-trained five-year-old mare is among 26 ...

Plans to take on So You Think in the Cox Plate with reigning Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy have been abandoned, with her owners deciding to reserve her for mares' races.Trainer Peter Moody on Fri...

Team Williams has its sights set solely on the Cox Plate with their star galloper  Fawkner . The stable is well-known for its obsession with the Melbourne Cup, but Nick Williams confirmed tha...

Opie Bosson had the benefit of four-time Cox Plate-winning rider Brent Thomson's expertise at Moonee Valley ahead of perhaps the most important ride of his career on equal favourite Princess Coup i...