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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...

OVERSEAS RACING - WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM IT?On Sunday Sha Tin held a big day, with some the best racing all year. How do you feel about (a) investing there and (b) learning from it?I would assume th...

  A leaner Villa Verde is ready to turn the tables on Golden Slipper favourite Overreach

Jockey Craig Newitt could hold the key that unlocks the undeniable talent of moody galloper Jungle Ruler on the way to next week's Winter Championship Final.Newitt was re-acquainted with the five-y...

Jockey Craig Newitt could hold the key that unlocks the undeniable talent of moody galloper Jungle Ruler on the way to next week's Winter Championship Final.Newitt was re-acquainted with the five-y...

Jockey Craig Newitt could hold the key that unlocks the undeniable talent of moody galloper Jungle Ruler on the way to next week's Winter Championship Final.Newitt was re-acquainted with the five-y...

AS PROOF of how things can change so quickly at the elite level of sport, highly talented apprentice Jason Maskiell tomorrow returns to racing in Victoria with four mounts at Caulfield after a roll...