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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...

MONGOLIAN Khan’s chances of becoming the 12 th  horse to win the Caulfield Cup – Melbourne Cup double have been boosted today following only a 1kg penalty. The stayer firmed from $7.00 into $6....

Irish trainer  Aidan O’Brien  added another chapter to his already remarkable career when he trained the first three across the line in Europe’s premier race, the Group 1 Arc de Triomphe at Chanti...

The last time trainer Grahame Begg saddled up a Cox Plate starter, young jockey Brenton Avdulla had never even ridden a horse.Avdulla has taken major steps in his riding career in the past two year...

Tim Clark is preparing to again have a wave of support behind him when Sydney's favourite mare Hot Danish returns to the track in Saturday's Group Two Expressway Stakes.Trainer Les Bridge elected t...