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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...

Exciting two-year-old Denman is on target to remain unbeaten this campaign and confirm a Group One date in next month's Golden Rose in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden has lifted his sights with the Lo...

Exciting two-year-old Denman is on target to remain unbeaten this campaign and confirm a Group One date in next month's Golden Rose in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden has lifted his sights with the Lo...

Exciting two-year-old Denman is on target to remain unbeaten this campaign and confirm a Group One date in next month's Golden Rose in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden has lifted his sights with the Lo...

Pat Hyland doesn't expect Zarita to upset star performer Weekend Hussler in Saturday's Underwood Stakes at Caulfield but he hasn't completely given up on the idea.Hyland has spent a lifetime in rac...