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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...

The combination of running a hair salon and training horses for the past 12 years has come to an end for Toowoomba's Jackie Crompton.Crompton, who prepares nine horses at Toowoomba, has sold her ha...

Queanbeyan has experienced its worst flood in years this week but local trainer Neville Layt doesn't expect the weather to have any major impact on Karuta Queen's Magic Millions preparation."We've ...

Gold Coast trainer Bryan Guy is hopeful a long and successful association with jockey Larry Cassidy can continue at Doomben.Cassidy is booked to ride the Guy-trained French Move who makes her stabl...

Gold Coast trainer Bryan Guy is hopeful a long and successful association with jockey Larry Cassidy can continue at Doomben.Cassidy is booked to ride the Guy-trained French Move who makes her stabl...

Impressive Caulfield winner Aloha is likely to go for a spell. Trainer Mick Price says: 'That was run number seven this campaign...I would say she'll go for a spell because I want a horse for the a...

WITH wins in the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate, Bart Cummings has already left an indelible mark on this year's spring carnival, and the renowned trainer will have a big impact on the Melbourne Cup e...