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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...

Lucky, lucky, lucky...Melbourne Cup runner-up Maluckyday looks likely to return to racing in Sat's Grp 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield. Trainer John Hawkes says he's booking Jim Cassidy for the ride...

Look out Kiwis, here comes First Command...Yes, NZ is next on the list for Saturday's impressive Caulfield winner. He will leave next week for New Zealand to run in the Grp 1 Telegraph Stakes 1200m...

Looks like Hay List's racing career is over...Latest reports say trainer John McNair is waiting for reports from several top vets about a serious knee injury Hay List sustained while recovering fro...

The very patient approach...AJC Derby winner Ethiopia is likely to dodge the spring Cups, according to trainer Pat Carey. Ethiopia was hailed as a Cups prospect after his stunning Derby win at Rand...

Easy does it...All Too Hard is almost back to his 'fit and ready' status and will be racing again in Sydney within a month. That's the word from co-trainer Wayne Hawkes. He says: 'He's bucking his ...

Are they going to dump her? This is the question hanging over Miracles of Life jockey Lauren Stojakovic as the countdown continues to the Blue Diamond. Latest news is that trainer Daniel Clarken sa...