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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...

Trainer John Moloney has good reason to think that Flying Ruby could be a stakes performer of the future, and it is not just because she has scored consecutive last-to-first wins in the last month....

Mon Beau Cheval, the little sister of AJC Australian Derby winner Nom Du Jeu, will come under scrutiny for a possible winter carnival campaign when she makes her debut at Doomben.The Group One Quee...

Brett Prebble celebrated a dream homecoming when he teamed with Macedon Lodge import Green Moon to win Tuesday's $6 million Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.The Victorian-raised jockey,...

The Lee Freedman-trained sprinter First Command is on track for his first Group One win after landing the Listed LT Cleary Stakes at Caulfield.Connections recalled jockey Dwayne Dunn to revive the ...

Trainer Mike Moroney is looking ahead to the Brisbane carnival with lightly-raced three-year-old Noble Park who has emerged as a Queensland Derby candidate after scoring at Sandown.The Pins gelding...

When Michael Rodd is legged up on New Zealander Nom Du Jeu for Saturday's Cox Plate he will no doubt afford a special look at the chestnut rival he has come to know so well.Whobegotyou is the domin...