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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...

In a night of glitz and glamour before a huge crowd at Rosehill Gardens, outstanding jockey Hugh Bowman was awarded the inaugural Bart Cummings Medal at NSW Racehorse Owners Association's 'Racing's...

It's tight - Australia's weight-for-age championship may still be 34 days away, but already there is a logjam of Group 1 horses queuing up for a Sportingbet Cox Plate start. While connections of ...

Rachel Alexandra has won the first match-up between racing's leading ladies, beating out undefeated mare Zenyatta for Horse of the Year.Voters chose the fabulous filly for the year-end honour at th...

Champions Black Caviar and So You Think are set to battle it out for honours for the Victorian Racehorse of the Year.In what is seen as a prelude to the Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year ti...

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Tony McCoy managed a fitting end to his landmark year by taking both Grade One races at Newbury, including one named in his honour aboard the magnificent Big Buck's.McCoy had remarked how much he e...