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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 Bill Smart hopes the Group Two Let's Elope Stakes will help clarify Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate plans for promising stayer Silent Surround."I think Saturday at Flemington will tell us a bit...

Chad Schofield will take the ride on the promising  Divan  when he resumes riding at Flemington on September 13.  He finishes a 27-meeting suspension, incurred at Caulfield on August 16, on t...

Lee Freedman's arrangement with stable rider Dwayne Dunn has been varied to provide more flexibility for both parties.Freedman said Dunn was still the number one stable jockey but he had the opport...

When a horse lands first prize in a major race you can bet your socks that a lot of planning went into achieving the success. That's what racing is all about for trainers and owners-planning, gett...

The tipping magic continues for the PPD Club's #1 expert Brian Blackwell. Maintaining his extraordinary form, BB busted both big races on the Caulfield card on Saturday., He tipped the $46.70 e...

Owner Dennis Marks' decision to extend the racing career of well-bred mare Olimpica could pay off with a metropolitan win at Moonee Valley on Sunday.The five-year-old daughter of European champion ...