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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...

Race morning price changes for Warwick Farm on Wednesday (from TAB)

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Apache Cat's redeeming second to folk hero takeover Target in the Winterbottom Stakes has revived his chances in the International Sprint in Hong Kong.Trainer Greg Eurell had all but given up on ta...

Jumbo Prince is the punters’ pick to take out the Grafton Cup  tomorrow, reports TAB.   The Michael Nolan-trained four-year-old is the best backed runner ($8 into $6), holding 30 percent of t...

HE JUST WAS, THAT'S ALL!So who was the best racehorse in modern times?Southern hemisphere of course, they rarely travelled until recently."Black Caviar" I hear the bleat.She's marvellous. I agree. ...

Every Race? Sorree!Can't be done. When you listen to the tipsters, or watch them, remember they are PAID (and handsomely at that) to pick horses- up to four or more- in every race on their program....