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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...

Breeze Of Luck's sharp acceleration is what separates him the rank and file in Class Four and the four-year-old can make it two in a row in the Kowloon Cricket Club Centenary Cup (1,800m) at Sha Ti...

Kris Lees is very keen on the future prospects of his Rosehill plunge winner Elimbari. He says: ''The second best two-year-old I've had, put it that way...' He was, of course, putting Samantha Miss...

The narrow edge of a good draw is enough to make David Hall-trained  Heroic Guru the one to beat as he shoots for three straight in the Hong Kong Club Challenge Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley tonigh...

Unbeaten champion Frankel has been given a provisional Timeform rating of 142 for his comeback win in the Group One Lockinge Stakes.The four-year-old showed no effects of the injury last month whic...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...

It is full steam ahead for Sister Havana's assault on the $NZ1 million Karaka Millions at Ellerslie later this month despite her unplaced run at Eagle Farm.Sister Havana finished an unlucky fourth ...