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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...

IT MIGHT have been only a midweek meeting on a very heavy track at Sandown yesterday but several winners look set to graduate to better class races over the spring, reports The Age.It says: Two of ...

Comeback mare J'adane has managed to sneak into the field for Saturday's Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield for what will be just her second appearance in a year.The five-year-old old ...

David Hayes produced a couple of promising three-year-olds, Legalistic and Maraaseem, to win at Sandown and both of them are being aimed at Group One races this spring.Legalistic, by Encosta De Lag...

Lee Freedman's dwindling stocks for next month's Golden Slipper Stakes got a boost when unbeaten colt Common Interest won at Flemington.The More Than Ready colt emerged as a contender for Australia...

Classy sprinter Grand Duels will have a delayed start to his autumn campaign but still has the Group One Newmarket Handicap as his major goal.Trainer Byron Cozamanis was hoping to have the five-yea...

Lee Freedman's dwindling stocks for next month's Golden Slipper Stakes got a boost when unbeaten colt Common Interest won at Flemington.The More Than Ready colt emerged as a contender for Australia...