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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...

It's El Segundo time again, but can the ageing star make a winning return to racing? It's the BIG question. Latest reports say the 2007 Cox Plate superstar may make his comeback as early as Saturda...

Multiple Group One winner El Segundo is only weeks away from making his return to racing.Trainer Colin Little says the seven-year-old has responded to stem cell therapy for a tendon injury and has ...

After a year away from the track, 2007 Cox Plate winner El Segundo has made an early start to his autumn preparation with his return to Colin Little's Caulfield stables.El Segundo suffered a leg in...

Multiple Group One winner El Segundo has moved closer to making a comeback from injury after contesting a trial at Cranbourne.Trainer Colin Little said the seven-year-old wasn't asked to do much in...

Multiple Group One winner El Segundo has moved closer to making a comeback from injury after contesting a trial at Cranbourne.Trainer Colin Little said the seven-year-old wasn't asked to do much in...

Cox Plate-winning jockey Luke Nolen says a strong tempo will be crucial to whether his mount El Segundo can pull off a second win in Saturday's $3 million weight-for-age Moonee Valley feature due t...