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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...

MICHELLE Payne yesterday conceded that her riding career may end in the next few seasons, but the state's leading female rider is determined to make the most of her impending comeback from multiple...

Australian superstar So You Think is in work under the care of Irish training wizard Aidan O'Brien.So You Think, now majority-owned by Coolmore, arrived at the Irish breeding giant's famous Ballydo...

So You Think is the new favourite for the Melbourne Cup despite not being qualified for Australia's most famous race.The Bart Cummings-trained four-year-old cruised to his third win this spring in ...

Renowned Sydney race broadcaster Des Hoysted died in a Sydney nursing home on Thursday night aged 86.Hoysted began his career on Boxing Day 1948 calling races at Wodonga and a few years later came ...

Trainer Peter Moody is used to seeing Black Caviar win but says the hairs on the back of his neck stood up as she streaked towards the winning post for her 21st consecutive victory.Her jockey Luke ...

Psychologists call it 'patterns of behaviour' and, of course, they're talking about human beings and the way that 99 per cent of us adopt a rational lifestyle with predictable behaviour. But what...