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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...

DAMIEN Oliver clinched the ride on Dandino in next month’s Hong Kong Vase when he rang trainer Marco Botti in England. The conversation swung Oliver over the line for the ride in the $2 million G...

Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock (ATB) managing owner Darren Dance might have lost last year’s Emirates Melbourne Cup placegetter Jakkalberry to injury over the weekend, but his Spring Racing C...

Damien Oliver will take the reins on Cox Plate-bound Dan Excel when he begins his campaign in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1,400m) at Caulfield on September 28. Trainer John Moore had expected...

Trainer John Gosden yesterday allayed any fears that HK$15 million Longines Hong Kong Vase favourite, The Fugue, might have been a victim of her long journey last weekend, reports the Racing Post...

Craig Williams is delighted by the progress Dunaden has made since his Melbourne Cup win. He arrived in Hong Kong from Japan (where he has a 6 weeks contract) on Tuesday to ride Dunaden in a key tr...

Craig Williams is poised to land even more major race prizes, and one of them could be aboard Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden. Crais likely to reunite with Dunaden in next month's Hong Kong Vase. He m...