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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...

Melbourne Cup Carnival winners  Prompt Return  and  Antelucan  are late entries for next year’s Group 1 Sportingbet Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m). The two-year-olds head a list of 532 juveniles sti...

There have been a couple of good old-fashioned betting plunges on tomorrow’s Group 3 $150,000 Chairman’s Stakes (1000m) at Sandown Hillside. Punters have tuned into two unraced two-year-olds call...

The Robert Smerdon trained filly – Fontiton has drawn barrier 1 and remains the $2.50 favourite for Saturday’s Blue Diamond Stakes.    

The  Gai Waterhouse -trained  Carriages  has earned herself a tilt at the $2 million Magic Millions on the Gold Coast following a sizzling display in the  Magic Millions Clockwise Classic  (1000m)...

French import  Sysmo  headlines the early nominations for Saturday’s Ballarat Cup. The Tony McEvoy-trained  Sysmo , to be ridden by Craig Williams, heads to the $200,000 listed Ballarat cup on th...

Capitalist ($8), winner of the Breeders’ Plate, has opened clear favourite to win the 2016 Golden Slipper at Rosehill.   The Snowden-trained colt ensured favouritism after a dominant 3 length wi...