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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...

BART Cummings's super stallion So You Think will tomorrow start the shortest-priced favourite in the Cox Plate for 43 years and by doing so, will force on-course bookmakers to revert to an old meth...

HISTORY was against a winning return to racing from superstar colt Sepoy at Caulfield yesterday, but, as his trainer Peter Snowden noted, history had not often seen the likes of his magnificent thr...

HAVING worn a deal of pain through So You Think's spring carnival and then Black Caviar's six-start winning streak this autumn, Australian bookmakers are not willing to risk the Australian champion...

COOLMORE'S Ballydoyle trainer Aidan O'Brien yesterday had no hesitation in labelling the world's most famous race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in Paris next September as one of the goals for the...

Form work is often more about eliminating so called contenders that have too many form negatives. I have just noted the pre post prices for the meeting at Scone tomorrow and downloaded the form for...

WITH the magnificent veteran Takeover Target scratched from tonight's Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, younger sprinters which fit in the "could be anything" category have their chance to shin...