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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...

No rest yet for Starspangledbanner...Australia's international sprint star, already the winner of four Grp 1 races, and the first horse to complete the Golden Jubilee/July Cup double, will now emba...

THE plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

The Mike Moroney-trained Shenzhou Steeds made light work of his 58kg impost with an exhilarating victory in Saturday's Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) at the Sunshine Coast.Jockey Eddie Wilkinson team...

Wherever gambling takes place the door to corruption always opens and sadly for the cricket world the door has exploded open. The current allegations of match fixing provide extraordinary reading f...

Trainer Rick Worthington is expecting Sainthood's trip for Friday's $130,000 Wagga Gold Cup to be another important step in the seasoning of the talented four-year-old.Sainthood is the early equal ...

Trainer Rick Worthington is expecting Sainthood's trip for Friday's $130,000 Wagga Gold Cup to be another important step in the seasoning of the talented four-year-old.Sainthood is the early equal ...