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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...

GRAHAME BEGG is less than impressed a week of rain is forecast for Brisbane before Saturday's Doomben 10,000 in which the Randwick trainer's galloper All Silent is looking to snare a second group 1...

If Grahame Begg had his time over he would not have given Group One winner All Silent a winter carnival campaign in Brisbane.The Randwick trainer admits that in hindsight, connections made the wron...

A Queen Elizabeth Stakes field devoid of a genuine weight-for-age star has Grahame Begg growing in confidence about closing out the Sydney autumn carnival in the same way he started it.Begg got off...

Grahame Begg doesn't place too much importance on barriers in 1600-metre races at Randwick which is just as well when it comes to the stable's Doncaster runners.Palacio De Cristal drew gate 12 whil...

Sydney colt Praecido has been backed at long odds to upset the favourites in Saturday's Victoria Derby.Trainer David Payne is not concerned about the uncertain weather, believing Praecido can adapt...

Talented filly Palacio De Cristal will make the long trek from Sydney to Adelaide this week to try to salvage something from a luckless autumn carnival.The Grahame Begg-trained three-year-old runs ...