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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...

Better late than never...Racing NSW stewards have decided to shift back today's race meeting at Rosehill Gardens to counter the expected heat wave in Sydney. With temperatures set to reach well bey...

The continuation of two of the premier series conducted throughout Victoria during the colder months are among the features of the Melbourne Racing Club's seventh annual Taralye Raceday this Saturd...

Paul Snowden, foreman for his father Peter, says the week's delay to the running of the Australian Guineas had not posed any problems for the hot favourite Denman.''If anything it has been a blessi...

The extra week's wait for the running of the Australian Guineas due to the fierce hail storm at Flemington last Saturday hasn't diminished the confidence of the Peter Snowden stable with odds-on fa...

A line-up worthy of a Group 1 raceday will tackle several important trials at Royal Randwick on Friday. Group 1 winners  Diamond Drille ,  Foreteller ,  The Offer , Hawkspur  and  Boban  are amon...

THE Victoria Racing Club might be forced to consider changing next year's Turnbull Stakes meeting to a Sunday, as the AFL appears certain to stage the 2011 grand final on the first Saturday in Octo...