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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...

Solar Charged has stamped herself as the benchmark two-year-old so far this season and on Saturday at Rosehill trainer John O'Shea will take the wraps off another of his promising youngsters.O'Shea...

Solar Charged has stamped herself as the benchmark two-year-old so far this season and on Saturday at Rosehill trainer John O'Shea will take the wraps off another of his promising youngsters.O'Shea...

J ohn O’Shea is proud of his achievements with top mare Sea Siren and he’s hoping there is one more left to come...

The Villiers Stakes is a race close to the heart of John O'Shea.It was eleven years ago that Grey And Gold won the summer feature, delivering O'Shea his first Group victory as a trainer.He had not ...

Top colt Foxwedge narrowly missed out on a Group One win during the spring but he will be given the chance to rectify that in the major Melbourne sprints.The winner of the Group Two Roman Consul St...

It was almost a case of deja vu for trainer John O'Shea and owners Trevor Stuckey and Penny Yan when a colt caught their eyes at the yearling sales.Five years ago they secured subsequent multiple G...