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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...

More Than Great's connections bypassed a return bout with boom colt Denman in the Golden Rose but the pair appear destined to clash later in the spring at the top level.The David Payne-trained More...

One-time Golden Slipper prospect Streets Away is finally set to make his Sydney debut - 20 months after his trainer had first planned.The Alan Bailey-trained Queenslander was all set to test out hi...

Trainer Tim Martin was almost speechless after three-year-old Monton caused a major upset in the Group Two Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill in which race favourite Manhattan Rain again disappointed.M...

Trainer Tim Martin was almost speechless after three-year-old Monton caused a major upset in the Group Two Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill in which race favourite Manhattan Rain again disappointed.M...

A little more than 24 hours after the passing of Vo Rogue, Australian racing has lost another of its great on-pacers following this morning's sudden death of Northerly.The Western Australian champi...

Melito's trainer Gerald Ryan believes there is more than one threat to the filly's chances in the Tea Rose Stakes.His opinion is in contrast to punters who believe Saturday's Group Two race over 15...