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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...

Tonight's Ebor Hdcp 2800m at York UK could have a significant bearing on the Melbourne Cup. Five of the 21 runners are entered for the Cup, headed by the ruling Ebor favorite Changingoftheguard. T...

Melbourne Cup hope Changingoftheguard was a certainty btn in the 2800m Ebor at York UK overnight. Bookmakers Paddy Power halved Changingoftheguard in price to 6/1 from 12/1 for next month's Ladbrok...

Peter Snowden believes the best is still ahead of well-related stakeswinning mare Shannara, who is set to kick off her autumn campaign at Newcastle on Wednesday.A full-sister to 11-time Group One w...

from RACING POST in Hong KongDestined For Glory put the writing on the wall with his second placing first time out this season and the four-year-old can prove the best of John Moore's powerful duo ...

Kathy O'Hara has become just the fourth Australian woman to ride a Group One winner, appropriately claiming the Coolmore Classic on Ladies Day at Rosehill.The Ron Quinton-trained Ofcourseican conti...

Joao Moreira riding nine horses at a single meeting for John Size might look like “Dream Team 2.0” but the jockey says his big day out for the champion stable is simply a case of taking the best p...