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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...

Merry Christmas and A Happy Boxing Day!I do hope your Chrissie Day was a bottler, and that it all ended safely and happily.So what's on the agenda for the weekend?A special bet?One you've been swea...

A section of electricity cable has been removed from the paddock area at Newbury following the deaths of two horses at the course on Saturday.Fenix Two and Marching Song were about to be mounted by...

Canberra trainer Nick Olive is confident he has chosen the right horse to give him his second Weetwood Handicap winner in three years at Toowoomba on Thursday.Olive had his first success in the fea...

Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...

MOONEE VALLEY I love Moonee Valley. I'd go there anytime. It's easy to get to, as any Melburnian knows. Just get a tram from Elizabeth Street, or Swanston Street, and ask the conductor. A goo...

SANDOWN When Sandown was opened in 1965, even those of us who were not Victorians were fascinated and thrilled by the new track. The baby in racing soon established a niche for itself, racki...