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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...

There are still 10 Group One races to be decided in Sydney before the end of the month but Gai Waterhouse is already thinking beyond the autumn carnival.In a dream start to the Sydney carnival, Wat...

A luckless Rosehill Guineas defeat made an almost compelling case for Silent Achiever to run in the Australian Derby, the New Zealand filly's trainer Roger James says.James confirmed Silent Achieve...

Mark Newnham has had some good times at Kembla Grange, winning three jockeys premierships there, and it seems logical that his first winner as a trainer would come at the South Coast track, report...

Carlton House will campaign exclusively in Melbourne this spring en route to the $3 million Sportingbet Cox Plate, reports Racing Network.  The Queen’s horse, placed in the Ranvet and Queen Eliz...

WITH Friday's Gosford trials washed out by rain, Gai Waterhouse will send Melbourne Cup favourite  The Offer  south. The Offer  was one of 28 horses that Waterhouse had entered for Gosford ...

Nash Rawiller has labelled King Lionheart a Tulloch Lodge surprise packet and it will come as no shock to the premier jockey if the gelding returns a winner on Saturday.King Lionheart will carry to...