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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...

No sooner has the dust settled on Kyneton Cup day than I find myself puffing and panting for the formguides for the VRC Oaks and dutifully do the required form work that night. Is there a picture...

Hope reigns eternal...Kiwi trainer Murray Baker still believes Harris Tweed can win the Melbourne Cup and he's taking him back to NZ to prepare him for another crack at the big one in which he ran ...

Relax, it's all OK...Melbourne Racing Club chief executive Alasdair Robertson is adamant that strike action by track and maintenance workers will not delay races on Sat's big Caulfield Guineas prog...

Mick Price is keen on a Boxing Day 'black type' strike for his smart Flemington winner Aloha. The mare's chance looms in the $100,000 Listed Lord Stakes at Caulfield. MP says: 'She's done a wonderf...

Trainer Peter Moody has his sights set on a New Zealand feature race at the end of the month with consistent three-year-old Encosta Belief.Moody's racing manager Jeff O'Connor said the gelding woul...

Trainer Peter Moody has his sights set on a New Zealand feature race at the end of the month with consistent three-year-old Encosta Belief.Moody's racing manager Jeff O'Connor said the gelding woul...