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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...

Weight worries for Blake Shinn? It must have been all that rich food on his recent international holiday with girlfriend Kathy O'Hara. He's relinquished two 53kg rides at Sat's Randwick meeting, on...

Gai Waterhouse is saving herself for an all-out assault on the final two rounds of the Sydney trainers' premiership battle after scratching her only runner from Saturday's Randwick meeting, Swift A...

RANDWICK Acceptances on Saturday 25th July, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: +9m 1600m to WP, +5m remainder--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.05 MERIMBULA BA...

NEWCASTLE Acceptances on Thursday 16th September, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01.00 TIP TOP BAKERIES CLASS 2 HANDICA...

There has never been a great emphasis on trackwork gallops in Australian racing and less so in recent years, with the growth in the numbers of meetings held resulting in punters having less time t...