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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...

Trainer Jake Stephens was left a little puzzled by Alcopop's first Sydney start and hopes the gelding can give him a better indication of how he is going in Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes.Alcopo...

Trainer Jake Stephens was left a little puzzled by Alcopop's first Sydney start and hopes the gelding can give him a better indication of how he is going in Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes.Alcopo...

AFTER taking Victorian racing by storm last spring, South Australian stayer Alcopop will race exclusively in Sydney during the autumn in a bid to capture his first group 1 success, reports The Age....

Talented South Australian stayer Alcopop impressed trainer Jake Stephens with a track gallop at Kembla Grange on Saturday which showed he was on target to begin his Sydney campaign in the Apollo St...

WHOBEGOTYOU heads to Moonee Valley on Saturday trying to win his third Dato Dan Chin Nam Stakes, but one trainer not daunted by the task of toppling the favourite is Alcopop's mentor Jake Stephens,...

When a trainer starts talking up last year's star by saying he's 'bigger and better' after a spell...frankly, I start to worry! It often happens that such horses are miserable failures. Alcopop's t...