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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...

Zipping finally won the first Group One race of his career when the eight-year-old beat the Bart Cummings-trained Sirmione by a nose in a desperate lunge to the line in the $1 million Australian Cu...

In a devastating display that had many searching for new superlatives, So You Think confirmed he was the best horse in the country when he claimed his second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Young jockey...

In a devastating display that had many searching for new superlatives, So You Think confirmed he was the best horse in the country when he claimed his second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.Young jockey...

Doomben Cup & O'Shea Stakes winner Scenic Shot is the early fav at $4.80 for Sat's 2400m Brisbane Cup at Eagle Farm, even though connections have been casting doubt on whether he will run on a heav...

Kidnapped has grabbed the top betting spot for Sat's Sandown Guineas. Peter Snowden's classy 3YO is at $2.25 (5/4) on TAB Sportsbet's early market.SANDOWN GUINEASKIDNAPPED 2.25KHAS KURA 4.00MAJESTI...

Aussie jockey Zac Purton grabbed a rare opportunity for the John Moore stable to claim his first Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin and break the trainer's Grp One drought for the season with Military A...