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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...

Pins On Parade has overcome the stone bruise that ruled him out of the Canterbury Classic and will line up at Randwick as part of a small but select team for Newcastle trainer Kris Lees.Joining Pin...

Pins On Parade has overcome the stone bruise that ruled him out of the Canterbury Classic and will line up at Randwick as part of a small but select team for Newcastle trainer Kris Lees.Joining Pin...

Premier Kristina Keneally has called on Sydney to party during the autumn racing carnival which gets into full swing this week.Speaking at Monday's official launch, Ms Keneally said the city should...

Premier Kristina Keneally has called on Sydney to party during the autumn racing carnival which gets into full swing this week.Speaking at Monday's official launch, Ms Keneally said the city should...

When Daffodil won the Group One AJC Australian Oaks at Randwick in April, it was the first win by a New Zealand-trained horse in the race since Domino in 1990.The statistic was another example of h...

When Daffodil won the Group One AJC Australian Oaks at Randwick in April, it was the first win by a New Zealand-trained horse in the race since Domino in 1990.The statistic was another example of h...