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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...

IN A historic moment for the Melbourne spring carnival yesterday, the first two horses from Macau to contend for the riches on offer arrived at Tullamarine Airport just after noon. But for the hors...

Publishing will have to carry five kilograms more than a year ago to make it back-to-back wins in the Standish Handicap.The five-year-old would be only the sixth horse and the first in 58 years to ...

Veteran steeplechaser Al Garhood will carry 69kg in his attempt at a history making third win in the $250,000 Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool on Thursday.Racing Victoria jumps handicapper ...

THERE are no prizes and very little profit in selecting hot favourite Sepoy to win tomorrow's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes, but despite the awful record of odds-on favourites in the race (five st...

Making Money at the Races (2)I promised you an example (see Making Money at the Races Part 1)The Cup meeting at Eagle Farm at the beginning of June featured several last start winners, but very few...

History says the winner of one of the Spring Racing Carnival’s big three, maybe more, will emerge from Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. In all but two of the past 15 yea...