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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...

Robert Smerdon, who almost sacked Cabazon as a two-year-old, was rewarded for a change of heart when she won the Strutt Stakes at Elwick in Hobart.Smerdon said he had all but given up on the daught...

Robert Smerdon, who almost sacked Cabazon as a two-year-old, was rewarded for a change of heart when she won the Strutt Stakes at Elwick in Hobart.Smerdon said he had all but given up on the daught...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Kinnersley could be headed for the Tasmanian Derby at the end of the month after his slashing win at Randwick on New Year's Day.Kinnersley races in the well-known purple ...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Kinnersley could be headed for the Tasmanian Derby at the end of the month after his slashing win at Randwick on New Year's Day.Kinnersley races in the well-known purple ...

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Kinnersley could be headed for the Tasmanian Derby at the end of the month after his slashing win at Randwick on New Year's Day.Kinnersley races in the well-known purple ...

Trainer Mick Price has the Queensland Oaks as a target for Tasmanian Derby winning filly Betwixt.Betwixt, who is raced by a syndicate of 10 and managed by Sydneysider Graeme Smith, posted her third...