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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...

Captain Sonador will follow arch rival Shoot Out to Melbourne for the spring if he can maintain his current form in the Group One Rosehill Guineas on Saturday.Trainer Roger Milne has ruled out retu...

Damien Oliver and Darren Beadman are the frontrunners to ride Pompeii Ruler in the $2.8 million Singapore Airlines International Cup if Craig Newitt fails to have a careless riding suspension reduc...

Champion sprinter Takeover Target is a step closer to running in the Group One Telegraph Handicap in New Zealand after authorities relaxed quarantine protocols.But trainer Joe Janiak says Takeover ...

The greatest recognition of the New Zealand thoroughbred in 2010 probably came from an Irish chequebook.Coolmore Stud in November reportedly parted with $30 million for a controlling share in champ...