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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...

John O'Shea is keen to target the Group One Stradbroke Handicap with Sea Siren but first hopes to land the Surround Stakes with the exciting filly.Sea Siren handled the step up to stakes company wi...

Ghibellines , the first colt home in the Golden Slipper Stakes earlier this year, is on his way to Melbourne. Trainer John O’Shea today told Racing Network the half-brother to last season’s ch...

Darley’s John O’Shea has never been so busy, but not too busy to notice the physical improvement  Ghibellines  has made since his spell, reports Racing Network. The magnificently bred half-brot...

The curtain may have closed on the Sydney carnival but there will be plenty of interest in the Rowley Mile program at Hawkesbury.In-form trainer John O'Shea is among those planning to target the st...

The curtain may have closed on the Sydney carnival but there will be plenty of interest in the Rowley Mile program at Hawkesbury.In-form trainer John O'Shea is among those planning to target the st...

Sydney’s boom three-year-old  Savvy Nature  will not run in the $2 million ATC Australian Derby (2400m). Trainer John O’Shea unveiled radical plans for  Savvy Nature , reports Racing Ne...