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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...

Bart Cummings is resigned to relying on Dandaad to break his Sydney Cup drought with emerging stayer Joe Blow named second emergency for Saturday's distance feature at Randwick.The field is restric...

Can Vision and Power win the Cox Plate? Well, trainer Joe Pride is quietly confident he'll prove a real prospect for the WFA classic. VAP is now back in work at Pride's Warwick Farm stable after a ...

GROUP 1 stars Joseph Pride and Tye Angland will combine at Gosford on Wednesday in a bid to snare another feature-race victory as the racing season draws to a close, reports the Sydney Morning Hera...

Black Caviar will have only 8 rivals when she tackles the Grp 1 1200m Goodwood at Morphettville on Saturday. The champion mare should be untroubled. There is a weight difference of only 2.5kgs betw...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...