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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...

Queensland trainer Robert Heathcote concedes Buffering is running for second place behind unbeaten champion Black Caviar who is chasing her 16th straight win in the Group One Patinack Farm Classic ...

Hong Kong's main English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, has come out woith a savage article lambasting Australian racing interests over the controversial issue of internatiuonal...

Place betting demands patience, care and the ability to accept small returns. It also calls for a punter to show extreme skill in making the right selections - because losing runs have to be avoid...

Place betting demands patience, care and the ability to accept small returns. It also calls for a punter to show extreme skill in making the right selections - because losing runs have to be avoid...

Dwayne Dunn will reunite with his longest priced winner in memory, My Kingdom Of Fife, in the Doomben Cup.Dunn won the Group Three Doncaster Mile Prelude on the former English galloper at $151 when...

The unlikely rise of Takeover Target from broken down crock to globetrotting sprint star has come full circle with connections confirming the champion's glittering career is over.Takeover Target un...