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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...

The race for next month's $1 million Magic Millions 3YO Trophy continues with quality gallopers from around Australia set to compete with Shadow Assassin, Temple of Boom, Shoot Out, Deer Valley and...

Peter Snowden rates Friday night's Canterbury Classic field as the best he's seen for this time of year despite the scratching of star Queensland speedster Burdekin Blues.Sydney's reigning premier ...

If Graceful Anna can provide David Pfieffer with a breakthrough Group One win in Saturday's Coolmore Classic, the late Tony Wildman won't be far from the trainer's thoughts.Pfieffer learned his cra...

The John Moore-trained  Rewarding Hero  still has plenty to learn and, from a good draw, he can absorb a hike in the handicaps and salute as a banker in the final leg of the Triple Trio at Sha ...

No doubt about it...Whobegotyou was the real star of Tuesday's gallops at Eagle Farm. The Stradbroke fav gave the crowd of more than 300 lining the outside fence of the mounting yard a taste of wha...

All starry-eyed...Punters have Australia's Grp I winning 3YO Starspangledbanner second fav for his UK debut on Wednesday. He runs in the Grp 2 Duke of York Blue Square Stakes (1200m) at York. Now w...