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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...

Queensland's big wet has forced the abandonment of Saturday's Eagle Farm meeting just a week out from the lucrative Magic Millions race day on the Gold Coast.The decision to call off Eagle Farm was...

New Zealand riding sensation James McDonald will postpone an attempt to land his 200th win of the season in his homeland to ride at the Tattersall's Tiara meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday.McDonald...

The knives are out for the rain-sodden Eagle Farm track as Stradbroke Day looms. Trainer Grahame Begg is leading the attack. He spoke out after watching his Straddie favorite All Silent thrashed in...

Heavy rain has forced the cancellation of Saturday's Eagle Farm races.The meeting, which was to feature the Listed Falvelon Handicap (1200m), was called off after the track was declared unsafe foll...

Trainer Rob Heathcote begins his assault on the Doomben summer series when Excellantes and Work The Room clash in their comebacks at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The pair, along with stablemate Captain C...

Rain and poor visibility have forced the abandonment of the final five races at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.The track was downgraded to a slow (6) after the opening event but the meeting was called off...