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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...

They're running scared...Seems few UK and Irish trainers are keen to take on So You Think in the Grp 1 Tattersall's Gold Cup at The Curragh. Bookies have the Aussie superstar at $1.30. At the five...

HAVING worn a deal of pain through So You Think's spring carnival and then Black Caviar's six-start winning streak this autumn, Australian bookmakers are not willing to risk the Australian champion...

Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar t...

AUSTRALIA'S glamour galloper So You Think will continue his multimillion-dollar massacre on the nation's biggest bookmakers if he wins today's $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, reports Steve ...

With a week to the Cox Plate, bookies are keeping a tight check on the well-fancied Whobegotyou. In latest markets, Whobe is at $2.50 (6/4) for the Grp 1 wfa classic at Moonee Valley. The Betstar m...

Banner colts Smart Missile and Helmet remain in the running to emulate So You Think in this year's $3 million Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley. The star three-year-olds are among the 59 hor...