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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...

Big task...Cox Plate favorites Helmet and Jimmy Choux will need to do what only Sunline has been able to achieve in the past 15 years after drawing the outside half of the field for Sat's $3 millio...

Jimmy Choux has convinced trackwork watchers he is ready to succeed on a stage where a lot of other modern-day New Zealand Derby winners have usually failed.The glamour colt of New Zealand racing h...

Mark Kavanagh's boom stayer December Draw has firmed to $3.00 favoritism for the Caulfield Cup following his tough winning run in the Turnbull 2000m at Flemington. He's now 5.5 pts clear of second ...

Veteran gelding Mufhasa produced his trademark on-pace effort to claim his sixth Group One success in New Zealand on Saturday, defeating a number of Melbourne spring carnival hopefuls.Mufhasa sat o...

Jimmy Choux's trainer John Bary enjoys testing himself and his horse against the best and both are up for the challenge in a star-studded Queen Elizabeth Stakes.A former international polo player i...

Trainer Patrick Payne will have a second-up shot at Monday's Christmas Stakes with Cellarmaster even though he believes the Listed race is slightly short of his best distance.The Dubawi four-year-o...