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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...

Peter Snowden is confident he has wayward colt Helmet's mind on the job for his first Melbourne run in Saturday's Caulfield Guineas Prelude.The son of Exceed And Excel has been placed in both his r...

Major Cups are already on trainer Danny O'Brien's wish list for Shamrocker despite unfinished business in what has been a stellar autumn campaign.Shamrocker heads into the $550,000 AJC Oaks at Rand...

On a sentimental note Josh Parr would have been thrilled to ride Skilled in Saturday's Randwick Guineas but he is more than happy with the decision which gives him the opportunity on stablemate Ret...