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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...

Kauto Star made amends for last month's slip-up at Haydock with a third consecutive success in the King George VI Chase at Kempton.Trained by Paul Nicholls and partnered by Ruby Walsh, Kauto Star j...

Big trouble...Takeover Target underwent surgery after finishing unplaced in the Darley July Cup, according to British media reports. UK website Racingpost.com is reporting Takeover Target, who fini...

As the Spring carnival nears the end my Generic Ratings project is about to "spring" into action as I start to finalize the sprinters (900m to 1200m) ratings. One wonders how we figures desperadoes...

The Epsom Handicap is now firmly on the agenda for talented four-year-old Drumbeats who got his career back on track with victory in the Shannon Stakes at Rosehill after almost a year on the sideli...

The Perth Cup is the next aim for staying mare Ready To Lift who fulfilled trainer Gerald Ryan's predictions with victory in the Christmas Cup at Rosehill at her first attempt at 2400 metres.The ma...

Renowned Sydney race broadcaster Des Hoysted died in a Sydney nursing home on Thursday night aged 86.Hoysted began his career on Boxing Day 1948 calling races at Wodonga and a few years later came ...