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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...

Melbourne Cup winner Americain has left Australia to run in the Hong Kong International Vase on December 12. His jockey, Gerald Mosse, will ride in Perth on Saturday week at Ascot in the Kailis Int...

Speed Gifted OUT of the Caulfield Cup...That's the word from trainer Lee Freedman. He's decided to throw the import into the Cox Plate as a springboard race for the mighty Melbourne Cup. LF apparen...

Victoria Derby winner Sangster will miss the Melbourne spring carnival. Instead, the 4YO will chase autumn feature success in New Zealand. Sangster beat Induna in the Victoria Derby but then had fi...

Banner colts Smart Missile and Helmet remain in the running to emulate So You Think in this year's $3 million Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley. The star three-year-olds are among the 59 hor...

AUSTRALIAN superstar Black Caviar won't, in all likelihood, get the chance to try to lower English wonder horse Frankel's colours at Royal Ascot, but another champion from Down Under might get the ...

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...