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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...

There's a lot of nonsense flying around after that controversial court win for Racing NSW. Much of it is coming from the victors. Some is coming from Victoria where the usually sensible trainer Pet...

Just the one, thanks...Trainer Peter Moody has given his biggest hint to date that British racing fans will get just one opportunity to see Black Caviar in the UK...The Racing Post reports that Moo...

A decision on whether Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo backs up in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes will be left to the last minute.Trainer Chris Waller said he would monitor the gelding throughout the...

A decision on whether Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo backs up in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes will be left to the last minute.Trainer Chris Waller said he would monitor the gelding throughout the...

Lucas Cranach's part-owner Luke Murrell says the stayer's once troublesome hoof is now a "non-issue and hasn't caused one single minute of pain or lameness." And he's told Betfair that he regards L...

One minute you're up and the next you're down...Stewards threw cold water on Glen Boss's Cox Plate glory when they suspended him for 10 meetings for careless riding on the winner So You Think. Boss...