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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 prospect of becoming the youngest person to train a Cox Plate winner doesn't faze Con Karakatsanis - he just wants to be known as the winning trainer.The 24-year-old has already experienced Gro...

RED Cadeaux  has arrived in “stupid good form” as he embarks on a fourth bid for the Melbourne Cup.  The UK-based iron horse is one of 19 international horses that arrived on Saturday at the We...

There are two words that should hold more significance for punters than most other two words in the English language. I have always called them the "QC" of my racetrack investment and see them as ...

Group One winner Atomic Force remains in training in the hope he can secure a Hong Kong Sprint invitation."We've thrown in a nomination and he's had two inoculations so now it's a matter of waiting...

Since the introduction of the "you cannot whip a horse any more than X times at spots Y or any other letter" during a race I have been waiting for the inevitable to happen. After the Australian Cup...

The controversy over who Nash Rawiller will ride in Saturday's $1.5 million Doncaster Mile has deepened with Gai Waterhouse taking the matter to the Supreme Court.Racing NSW chief executive Peter V...