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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...

Looks like Dermot Weld is deadly serious about a Melbourne Cup attack this year...Rite Of Passage's win in last night's Ascot Gold Cup sets up what could prove a third triumph for Weld in the Cup. ...

Now it looks like he will...After 24 hours of doubt, there's renewed hope that Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres WILL be a starter in the Melbourne Cup. A final decision has yet to be made but ...

She's having another crack...Trainer Dermot Weld confirms that his top staying mare Profound Beauty will head for Australia this weekend to run in the Melbourne Cup for the second time. He says: 'I...

Will she tackle the Melbourne Cup for the second time? Dermot Weld's classy mare Profound Beauty showed she was on track for another crack at the Cup by notching her third Challenge Stakes victory ...