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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...

Michelle Payne will get the chance to claim a second Group One win for Bart Cummings when she partners Suyama in Saturday's AJC Australian Derby.Payne rode her first Group One winner when the Cummi...

Michelle Payne will get the chance to claim a second Group One win for Bart Cummings when she partners Suyama in Saturday's AJC Australian Derby.Payne rode her first Group One winner when the Cummi...

Injury prevented Danleigh from being a major player in the 2008 autumn carnival but the talented gelding has signalled he is still a Group One force with his second to Nicconi in The Galaxy.He gets...

The absence of Samantha Miss from the Thousand Guineas has bolstered the spirits of Sydney trainers with fillies in Wednesday's Group One race at Caulfield.Clarry Conners will saddle up Glowlamp an...

Trainer Brian Smith will give underrated sprinter Meet George another chance to qualify for the Group One Stradbroke Handicap during the winter following the gelding's return to form at Doomben.Mee...

Connections of lightly-raced filly Choice Words have pinned their hopes on apprentice Blake Spriggs in Saturday's Group One Flight Stakes.Along with Kiwi whiz-kid James McDonald, the young rider is...