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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...

Robbie Griffiths will enjoy his first day at the races in nearly 11 weeks when his stable saddles up four runners at the Sandown meeting on Wednesday.Griffiths contracted salmonella in Bali last Ju...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths has decided to split the summer campaigns of stablemates Happy Glen and Cocinero.Griffiths had the two sprinters nominated for Saturday's Group Three Rubiton Stakes (1100m)...

Trainer Robbie Griffiths says a return to stakes racing at Flemington could be the trigger Happy Glen needs to regain winning form.The five-year-old's campaign was derailed three starts ago when he...

Tribute to Reece...Rosehill trainer Tim Martin will saddle up Monton for the last at Rosehill today with Reece Potter in mind. Potter died earlier this week after a race fall at the Tottenham picni...

Nash Rawiller will try to increase his jockeys' premiership lead at Rosehill on Saturday with help from a stable usually involved in title duels with the trainer who made him a force in Sydney raci...

Nash Rawiller will try to increase his jockeys' premiership lead at Rosehill on Saturday with help from a stable usually involved in title duels with the trainer who made him a force in Sydney raci...