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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...

Jockey Ric McMahon joined the Risk Aversion fan club after the talented mare stretched her winning sequence to four at Doomben on Saturday.Risk Aversion looked set for defeat for only the second ti...

An extended spell has rejuvenated classy galloper Carrara who kicks off a belated autumn campaign at Caulfield with a view to tackling Brisbane's Group One winter sprints.The Tony Vasil-trained fou...

Stablemates Dusty Star and Amah Rock are likely to be assigned Brisbane winter missions in the coming weeks.Trainer Peter Morgan will assess the two horses after they run at Caulfield on Saturday b...

All is in readiness for Bart Cummings to attend the Melbourne Cup with the master trainer released from hospital on Sunday after a health scare.The thought of the 150th running of Australia's most ...

I suspect that the vast majority of people who take an interest in racing in NSW and Victoria, and probably most of the rest of the country, have succumbed to investing a few dollars on the latest...

I suspect that the vast majority of people who take an interest in racing in NSW and Victoria, and probably most of the rest of the country, have succumbed to investing a few dollars on the latest...