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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...

No, he's not kidding...Peter Moody is now seriously considering running champ Black Caviar in Sat's Grp 1 Futurity 1400m. Yes, he's had a change of mind (almost) from what he said after the mighty ...

Maybe she'll be lucky after all...There's a cautious air of optimism about the long-term future of injured superstar Black Caviar. While suspensory injuries can be career threatening, Black Caviar,...

Criterion is the favourite for Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m). As pointed out on Sky Racing seven of the first eight in the betting recently came up against each other in the Rosehill...

HERE THEY COME!The "champions" will emerge after this weekend. One or two per week for the next five or six weeks.Several will never amount to much.Maybe, just maybe, one will actually be a champio...

Trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith is content for Maybe Better to miss the Caulfield Cup and put all his energy into running in his second Melbourne Cup next month.Maybe Better, along with last Saturday'...

Latest news is that Grp 1 star All Too Hard will run in Sat's Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, but co-trainer John Hawkes hasn't ruled out running the colt the following week in the Australian Guinea...