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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...

Three-time Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Glen Boss played a starring role as Risky Business ended Better Than Ever's unbeaten run with an upset Singapore Gold Cup win.Saving as much Kranji turf as p...

VICTORIA'S leading trainer Peter Moody spent much of last week planning for the future with a $3 million-plus spending spree on yearlings on the Gold Coast, but this week it's down to immediate bus...

Star Queensland mare Chakvetadze has left trainer Michael Nolan beaming after scoring a resounding barrier trial win at Toowoomba.Chakvetadze was having her first serious track test since injury ru...

Juvenile thoroughbreds are emerging with the first big race, the Magic Millions on the Gold Coast, just weeks away. In the Randwick stable of John O'Shea is the early Magic Millions favourite, Ambe...

Despite his defeat at Caulfield on Saturday, Smart Missile retains favoritism over Helmet for the Caulfield Guineas.LATEST CAULFIELD GUINEAS MARKET $3.30 Smart Missile $3.60 Helmet $5.50 Moment Of ...

Exciting prospect Griffon made a stunning return for trainer Bart Cummings at Randwick on Wednesday after more than a year on the sidelines.The four-year-old, who started the $3.20 favourite, was ...