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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...

Sydneysiders get their chance to see Winx return to the track  this Saturday  in the Apollo Stakes with TAB installing the champion mare as a dominant $1.20 favourite as she looks to stretch her...

Only 64% of the money with the TAB has been for Winx ($1.15) to claim her 11 th  consecutive victory  this Saturday  in the George Main Stakes. Two weeks ago, prior to the mare being scratched ...

Chautauqua has joined Exosphere as joint favourite for the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes following significant support from TAB punters. The Group 1 winner has had over 50% of the market bet on...

Italian Derby winner Goldstream may make his Australian debut in a feature race on his new home track in a fortnight. Goldstream and highly-rated stablemate Lucia Valentina fought out the finish...

Almandin ($15) is third favourite with TAB to win the Sydney Cup and become just the fifth horse to win the Melbourne and Sydney Cup in the same season. Antonio Guiseppe and Kinema ($11) are on t...

  It won’t be for lack of numbers if Kris Lees can’t clinch a Newcastle Gold Cup breakthrough on Friday. Lees this afternoon announced he would have his biggest ever representation of four in the ...