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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...

Tony Cruz-trained  Beauty Only made a big impression in his first campaign and the four-year-old has a great chance to open his second preparation in the right style in the Kwangtung Handicap Cup ...

The Celebration Cup has been a great launching pad for horses headed towards Group One success in the past and John Size-trained Contentment  gets his chance to add himself to that list at Sha Tin...

Roll up, roll up for the magical transformation of NSW racing - thanks to those nasty corporate bookies and that ever-nasty Betfair mob. They're the ones who'll be funding racing NSW's glittering m...

Trainer John Size isn't involved in the denouement to the Happy Valley Million Challenge tonight but he does look like he might be a potent factor in deciding who does carry off the prize, reports...

Mike Moroney has the spring Cups in mind for his impressive import Glass Harmonium after his demolition job on rivals in the 2200m Eagle Farm Cup. MM hasn't ruled out backing up the bold front-runn...

In this series, we're looking at a collection of systems that you may consider gold or simply fool's gold! They come from various sources and I feel that each deserves some amount of considerati...