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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...

Inside Fulham Prison in eastern Victoria is a man who will listen more intently than many to Saturday's Caulfield Cup.He is doing time for thumping a neighbour who gave him trouble, and like the pu...

Punters gambled and lost when Happy Reunion went down to Lucky Red at his latest outing, but the Ricky Yiu Poon-fie-trained three-year-old is ready to turn that result around in today's Kowloon Cri...

Royal Flush was a transformed horse last season when a visor was added, and he should kick off a campaign aimed at December's Hong Kong Sprint on a winning note in the final leg of Sunday's Triple ...

Can you ever imagine yourself winning a billion dollars? Okay, not a billion Australian dollars but a billion Hong Kong dollars? This is about $200 million in Australian currency. Sounds like a fa...

Can you ever imagine yourself winning a billion dollars? Okay, not a billion Australian dollars but a billion Hong Kong dollars? This is about $200 million in Australian currency. Sounds like a fa...

The Gary Portelli-trained Eight Bills will try to make it five straight wins in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday week following his impressive first up win at Sandown.Jockey ...