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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...

Impeccably bred colt Crystal Web scored a perfect 10 for his dam Crystal Snip when he defied an alarming betting drift to land an impressive debut win at Sandown.Crystal Web, a son of first season ...

ONCE in a while there comes a horse for which you hope everything will go right - and two-year-old Godspeed is definitely that type of racehorse, reports The Age.It says: Trainer Gerald Ryan sent t...

Peter Moody has the kind of problem other trainers would envy as he plots the path for brilliant filly Black Caviar this spring.Moody, who rates Black Caviar the best horse he has trained on raw ab...

Peter Moody has the kind of problem other trainers would envy as he plots the path for brilliant filly Black Caviar this spring.Moody, who rates Black Caviar the best horse he has trained on raw ab...

Peter Moody has the kind of problem other trainers would envy as he plots the path for brilliant filly Black Caviar this spring.Moody, who rates Black Caviar the best horse he has trained on raw ab...

Brian McKnight will be on course to see talented but headstrong galloper Le Remas race for only the second time in his career when he runs at Caulfield on Saturday.McKnight, who has a team of 15 ho...