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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...

Trainer Patrick Payne has fond memories of last year's Warrnambool

THE Patrick Payne and Steven Pateman combination continued to dominate the Victorian jumping scene at Sandown yesterday, with the pair taking their shared wins for the season to 11 after a winning ...

Fresh from breaking a frustrating run of outs in stakes races, David Payne will bid to snare a trio of three-year-old features at Rosehill on Saturday.Payne won the Group Two Sebring Sprint with th...

David Payne may be a naturalised Australian but when it comes to cricket his South African heritage shines through.The trainer and jockey Jeff Lloyd, another transplanted South African, will join f...

Patrick Payne's dominance with a boutique group of jumpers has continued with his Grand National Hurdle hope Capecover scoring at Sandown.Former Cups horse Capecover brought up Payne's ninth jumps ...

Sydney trainer David Payne will welcome UAE Derby winner Musir to his stable in the near future with the Australian bred colt to be aimed at spring weight-for-age features.Musir led in a one-two fo...