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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 Dermot Weld-trained mare Profound Beauty is the one punters want in the Melbourne Cup and she is now outright favourite for the great race after the release of weights on Wednesday.TAB Sportsbe...

Encouraging overseas horses to come to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup seemed like a good idea at one time but with eight Europeans in the field this year, many have called for a limit on th...

The weights for the 2009 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) and Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) were headed by Australian horses when handicaps were released by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) Chief Handicappe...

Life as a successful international jockey in one of the world's greatest racing stables started for Kerrin McEvoy with a lucky break on an average horse in a Caulfield Cup.A similar set of circumst...

In this article, our senior contributor E.J. Minnis continues his series of "questions and answers" in which he replies to queries sent in by PPM readers. We intend making this series a regular ...

The traditional pre-Melbourne Cup international media morning took place at Werribee on Sunday and some of the horses had slightly harder hit outs than expected towards Tuesday’s race. Here are ...