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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...

Trainer John O'Shea is holding no grudges against Racing To Win's regular jockey Hugh Bowman after he switched camps to ride the Jack Denham-trained Metal Bender in the Group Two Warwick Stakes at ...

Trainer John O'Shea is holding no grudges against Racing To Win's regular jockey Hugh Bowman after he switched camps to ride the Jack Denham-trained Metal Bender in the Group Two Warwick Stakes at ...

Champion jockey Glen Boss is making a low key return to the saddle after being sidelined for four months with a career-threatening shoulder injury, taking just two rides at Sandown on Wednesday.Bos...

Glen Boss said he felt "100 per cent" after he partnered Josimar into third place to Costa In The Glen in his comeback ride in the Sportingbet Handicap at Sandown.Boss had just the one ride at Wedn...

Three equal favorites! That's how the early market has panned out following announcement of the final field for Sat's big Caulfield Cup 2400m at Caulfield. TAB Sportsbet has Metal Bender, Herculian...

So You Think's big win in the Memsie Stks has shot him to favoritism for the Cox Plate, which he won last year as a 3YO. The latest IASbet.com market has the Bart Cummings trained 4YO at 3/1 ($4.00...