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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...

From Michael Lee & Craig Brennan in SingaporeThe Cox Plate is now a target for brilliant mare Jolie's Shinju who has for the third time given all the right answers with an authority and defiance p...

Jim Cassidy and Nash Rawiller emerged as the most successful Group One riders of the Sydney autumn carnival with Gai Waterhouse leading the trainers' ranks.All three claimed three Group One races e...

The outside draw isn't usually much help over the all-weather 1,650m course at Sha Tin but John Moore-trained  Pablosky  gets a good opportunity to test the theory in the Diamond Hill Handicap the...

The  Global Sprint Challenge  is now an all-turf series following a change to the leg that is run on Dubai World Cup Night, reports Brad Bishop at racing.com. The Al Quoz Sprint, which will be ru...

One of the most popular ways of developing something out of very little is by developing a “safe” bet into the start of a sequence, as the anchor of a multiple bet. We can always convert a single...

One of the most popular ways of developing something out of very little is by developing a “safe” bet into the start of a sequence, as the anchor of a multiple bet. We can always convert a single...