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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...

There are exciting times ahead for Kris Lees with outstanding filly Samantha Miss on the threshold of greatness but first the trainer has some unfinished business with stable stalwart County Tyrone...

The Cox Plate beckons for outstanding filly Samantha Miss but for now trainer Kris Lees is happy to savour the history-making victory in the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick.Samantha Miss and An...

Glen Boss knew star Sydney filly Samantha Miss had the physical requirements to run a big race in the Cox Plate before he rode her for the first time at Moonee Valley.But after learning a bit more ...

Brenton Avdulla will miss the plum ride on Group One winner Secret Admirer in the Tramway Handicap after being suspended for careless riding at Canterbury on Wednesday.Corey Brown was quickly secur...

The only flaw Lee Freedman can find in Oaks favourite Samantha Miss is that Kris Lees trains her and he doesn't.Freedman has two runners in Thursday's Classic, Estee and Miss Scarlatti, but admits ...

Bookies reckon the CB Cox Stakes at Ascot on Dec 17 is at the mercy of Ranger. They have the classy Grant Williams trained 5YO an even money ($2.00) fav for the big race.C B COX STAKES (TAB Sportsb...