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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...

David Hayes will set potential top class sprinter Eagle Falls for a second-up crack at the $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington in March.Hayes said the four-year-old would resume in the Oakl...

Trainer David Hayes says the Group One Newmarket Handicap has increasing appeal for his star sprinter Nicconi.Hayes believes the Lightning Stakes winner can bounce back from the disappointment of h...

Trainer Barry Baldwin is overlooking Saraji's shock last start defeat and is confident the filly can bounce back in the Listed Mode Plate at Doomben on Saturday.Saraji started favourite in a 1000m ...

Back with a smile...Apprentice jockey Kody Nestor returns to race riding at Canterbury on Wednesday after being sidelined with a foot injury for a couple of months. He'll ride the Allan Denham-trai...

Trainer Robert Heathcote reckons Saturday's star-studded George Ryder Stakes should undergo a name change."They could really call it the Doncaster Prelude," Heathcote said."It's super for racing."T...

The vagaries of straight racing had many fooled when Eagle Falls won the Salinger Stakes on the inside of the track at Flemington from Turffontein on the opposite fence.Connections of Turffontein w...