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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...

The home-town drought looks set to continue in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley on Wednesday after Douglas Whyte, Zac Purton and Keith Yeung Ming-lun drew a grab b...

Classy mare Zarita will return to the scene of her two Group One victories at Morphettville in what will probably be her last start in the Group Two Queen Of The South Stakes.Zarita is unbeaten in ...

Classy mare Zarita will return to the scene of her two Group One victories at Morphettville in what will probably be her last start in the Group Two Queen Of The South Stakes.Zarita is unbeaten in ...

Mornington trainer Jason Petch will try to land his first Saturday Melbourne victory with speedy filly Hooness this week at Caulfield.Petch bought Hooness, a David Hayes cast-off, for $42,500 at a ...

Mornington trainer Jason Petch will try to land his first Saturday Melbourne victory with speedy filly Hooness this week at Caulfield.Petch bought Hooness, a David Hayes cast-off, for $42,500 at a ...

Former champion jockey Patrick Payne has celebrated his biggest day as a trainer with Capecover winning the Group Two Adelaide Cup at Morphettville from stablemate Kerdem.But in an ironic twist, th...