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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...

Australian jockey Craig Williams has claimed a Group One win in Japan, taking out the NHK Mile in Tokyo aboard Grand Prix Boss.Williams has just begun a three-month contract in Japan but will be ho...

MELBOURNE in the spring. Tokyo at Christmas. Or perhaps Cheltenham next March? The world is at the hooves of spring-heeled jumps champion Black And Bent, who once again proved his class with an eff...

Saturday's Kingston Town Stakes was the last Australian Group One race of the year but the result of the Railway Stakes two weeks earlier could be decided in court.The owners of He's Remarkable, wh...

Impressive Moonee Valley winner Metonymy could be the Blue Diamond Stakes sleeper in the Peter Moody stable.Moody has been so taken with the filly, who has had only two starts, that he bought her s...

A track inspection of Sandown on Friday will determine whether Sunday's three feature jumps races will be held on the steeplechase track or shifted onto the course proper.Racing Victoria Limited (R...

A track inspection of Sandown on Friday will determine whether Sunday's three feature jumps races will be held on the steeplechase track or shifted onto the course proper.Racing Victoria Limited (R...