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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...

Mike Moroney will remove blinkers from Viking Hero in a bid to help boost his chances of a quinella in the Listed Caloundra Cup on Saturday.It hasn't quite been the gold rush Moroney had hoped for ...

Sydney's wettest April day in a decade came a week too early for trainer Mike Moroney.Brazilian Pulse and King Pulse struggled on the heavy track when unplaced in their respective Group One assignm...

Four-year-old Viking Hero has surprised his connections and won the Group Three Eclipse Stakes after they nearly scratched him because of the heavy track.Trainer Mike Moroney said he spoke to part-...

The Brisbane winter carnival is far from over for trainer Mike Moroney who hopes Shenzhou Steeds can maintain his unblemished record for the stable at Doomben on Wednesday.Shenzhou Steeds, who line...

Viking Hero is back on track after a setback with pharyngitis and can show it in Saturday's Group Three Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.Trainer Mike Moroney had been aiming the Elvstroem colt at the...

Trainer Mike Moroney has mixed feelings about another wet weekend as he attempts to win the Group Three Eclipse Stakes with Our Tigress and Viking Hero at Sandown.The heavy rain forecast would favo...