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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...

With the roar of the crowd ringing in his ears, Damien Oliver steered Apache Cat to victory at Moonee Valley to set the popular sprinter up to take on the world.As the big white face of Apache Cat ...

With the roar of the crowd ringing in his ears, Damien Oliver steered Apache Cat to victory at Moonee Valley to set the popular sprinter up to take on the world.As the big white face of Apache Cat ...

Apache Cat is "rock hard fit" for a career defining test in Saturday's Group Two Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) in Perth.A crack at some of the world's best sprinters in next month's Hong Kong Sprint ...

Apache Cat is now a clear-cut favorite for Saturday's big Doomben 10,000 at Doomben. Betstar has the baldy-faced speedster at $3.50 (5/2), three points ahead of boom filly Ortensia $6.50 (11/2). Ba...

Damien Oliver's riding style could be the key to Apache Cat avenging last year's defeat in the Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin.While not critical of Corey Brown's handling of the champion sprinter last...

WHILE the Sydney-trained All Silent is considered the flag-bearer of the Australian contingent to contest Sunday's Hong Kong International Sprint, the veteran Apache Cat is certain to add another d...