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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...

QUEENSLAND rider Stathi Katsidis was looking longingly at this year's Caulfield and Melbourne cups after his victory on Shoot Out in the $1.3 million Australian Derby at Randwick yesterday, reports...

Sniper's Bullet will use Saturday's Yallambee Stud Stakes at Flemington as a springboard to the Group One Emirates Stakes.The now six-year-old scored his biggest win in the 2007 Stradbroke Handicap...

Sniper's Bullet will use Saturday's Yallambee Stud Stakes at Flemington as a springboard to the Group One Emirates Stakes.The now six-year-old scored his biggest win in the 2007 Stradbroke Handicap...

Sniper's Bullet will use Saturday's Yallambee Stud Stakes at Flemington as a springboard to the Group One Emirates Stakes.The now six-year-old scored his biggest win in the 2007 Stradbroke Handicap...

The lessons learned over the past 12 months have trainer Pat Webster upbeat about Thankgodyou'rehere's chances of going one better in this year's Group One Galaxy at Randwick.Runner-up to Atomic Fo...

David Hayes has a good opinion of three-year-old Rifleman and will test him in stakes company at Caulfield on Saturday when he will shoot for a hat-trick of wins.The colt, who has had only three st...