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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...

Mark Kavanagh's crack filly Atlantic Jewel has been backed off the map for next month's Grp 1 Thousand Guineas and she's now a $3.50 fav with Eskander's Betstar. Alan Eskander told PPD: 'We've bet ...

THE on-foot map-making of jockey Craig Williams will be under the spotlight before riding Melbourne filly Ortensia in the QTC Cup at Eagle Farm today, following his way-out tactics on All Silent la...

One man's trash is another man's treasure - just ask emerging Eagle Farm trainer Bradley Herne.Herne is part of the new brigade of Brisbane trainers rising through the ranks and readily acknowledge...

How many of us knew that mighty NZ mare Sunline would lead in the Cox Plate? I guess it wouldn't have taken a racing Einstein to figure it out. Yet that one piece of information might well have en...

Mentally there are fewer greater challenges to the average person than to survive the rigors of what we humans call life especially in the raising of a family. There is, however, another great chal...

Mentally there are fewer greater challenges to the average person than to survive the rigors of what we humans call life especially in the raising of a family. There is, however, another great chal...