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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 Tony Noonan has not ruled out a tilt at next month's Group One Stradbroke Handicap with Varenna Miss following the Victorian mare's classy win at Doomben.Having her first start in the right...

High class sprinter Lucky Secret is set to farewell handicap racing in the Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Tony Vasil has had the five-year-old in a holding pattern for the past month waiting for the Group ...

High class sprinter Lucky Secret is set to farewell handicap racing in the Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Tony Vasil has had the five-year-old in a holding pattern for the past month waiting for the Group ...

It's Hussler Hype time again, but this time around the claims of 'superstar greatness' are much more muted...In fact, the biggest headline is the one that says Weekend Hussler has injury problems a...

Queensland sprinter Burdekin Blues is almost certain to figure in a switch of Melbourne plans to take his place in Saturday's Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Barry Baldwin tabled an Oakleigh Plate start for...

Queensland sprinter Burdekin Blues is almost certain to figure in a switch of Melbourne plans to take his place in Saturday's Oakleigh Plate.Trainer Barry Baldwin tabled an Oakleigh Plate start for...