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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...

Sydney's premiership leading jockey Hugh Bowman is far from running scared of star filly Mosheen and is confident Streama has the ability to topple the favourite in Saturday's Vinery Stud Stakes.Th...

Robert Smerdon is eyeing a Cox Plate bid with super filly Mosheen. And there's no chance she will run in the Oaks at Randwick. Smerdon and owner Phil Sly reckon Mosheen has done enough this time ar...

Outstanding filly Mosheen will stick to her own age and sex when she attempts to take her Group One tally to four in the Vinery Stud Stakes on Easter Saturday.Mosheen has taken on the colts and gel...

The Randwick Guineas has been added to the autumn program for star filly Mosheen who beat the colts and geldings to claim Saturday's Australian Guineas at Flemington.Part-owner Phil Sly said the fi...

Runaway Victoria Oaks winner Mosheen will race for her new part-owner Katsumi Yoshida for the first time when she resumes in the Manfred Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.The leading Japanese owner-b...

Robert Smerdon says Golden Slipper runner-up Mosheen is forward enough for Saturday's Quezette Stakes at Caulfield which kicks off her spring campaign aimed at the Thousand Guineas.Formerly with Le...