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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...

Gold Trail's owners have travelled around the world to watch him race but will get to see him in their own back yard in January for the first time in more than five years.Glenn and Lisa Morton live...

Australian Craig Williams has added yet another string to his bow with victory in an international jockeys challenge in Dubai.The globe trotting Williams took out the Meydan Masters in a tight fini...

Some years ago, a close friend of mine travelled the Victorian country racing circuit. He was at just about every major bush meeting held for a period of some six years. He eventually gave it awa...

Black Caviar lived up to her rating as the world's greatest sprinter when she beat probably the second best sprinter on the globe, Hay List, in the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington.The unbe...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...