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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...

It won't be hard spotting Norm Hilton in the Caulfield crowd if he wins Saturday's Group One Toorak Handicap with Queenslander Poor Judge.He'll be the one wearing the big black Akubra hat, cheering...

Norm Hilton has never had a Sydney runner but three-year-old Norocos could be the first of many.Hilton, who trains at Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs, is keen to have a crack at Sydney raci...

Racing is all about dreams and for Toowoomba trainer Norm Hilton the game is no different.Hilton is hoping for a slice of the Magic Millions action next year with his promising sprinter Bold Glance...

Racing is all about dreams and for Toowoomba trainer Norm Hilton the game is no different.Hilton is hoping for a slice of the Magic Millions action next year with his promising sprinter Bold Glance...

Trainer Norm Hilton believes Bold Glance will have a fitness edge over stablemate Poor Judge when the pair clash in the $100,000 Gold Coast Stakes on Saturday.Hilton is taking an unorthodox path to...

Trainer Norm Hilton will put aside the Bold Glance running and handling inquiry as he looks to gauge Poor Judge's Doncaster Mile prospects when the five-year-old makes his comeback at Eagle Farm.Hi...