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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...

WHILE tomorrow's Blue Diamond Stakes Previews at Caulfield promise to give a valuable insight into the stocks of the top two-year-olds, the Zeditave Stakes for horses a year older appears to hold j...

Trainer Robert Heathcote reckons Saturday's star-studded George Ryder Stakes should undergo a name change."They could really call it the Doncaster Prelude," Heathcote said."It's super for racing."T...

Greg Eurell was delighted with Mic Mac's explosive first-up win in the Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington, but no more than Colin Little with the classy El Segundo's effort for third at his return...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...

The Villiers Stakes picture will become clearer after Saturday when several leading contenders clash in the Listed Festival Stakes at Rosehill.The 1500-metre race has long been a key guide to the G...