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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 Colin Davies believes he has another smart horse on his hands in three-year-old filly Total Liberty who will run in Saturday's Elvis "Ricky" Thurgood 50th Birthday Plate at Moonee Valley.Da...

Almindoro gets the chance to vindicate trainer Steve Richards' judgment he is a true Classic type when he lines up in Saturday's blue-ribbon Victoria Derby.Almindoro is the first Redoute's Choice R...

De Lightning Ridge has smashed the long-standing Randwick 1000-metre record in the Group Two Challenge Stakes in a blistering display of speed reminiscent of her two-year-old days.The now four-year...

Rachel Alexandra became the first filly to win the Preakness Stakes since 1924, holding off a late charge by Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to capture the middle jewel of the US Triple Crown....

Rachel Alexandra became the first filly to win the Preakness Stakes since 1924, holding off a late charge by Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to capture the middle jewel of the US Triple Crown....

We all love a good gambler. I reckon there's nothing like reading the secrets of a huge betting plonk. UK professional Barney Curley is one of those fearless bettors who have been there and done ...