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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...

Matt Stewart, of the Melbourne Herald Sun, reckons Kerrin McEvoy (a Victorian) has become the 'whipping boy' for Sydney's racing media, even the chief steward. Stewart's had a stinging crack at TVN...

Nick Williams has denied he and his father Lloyd have imposed any kind of media ban but says comments about their racing operation will come from them not their trainer or jockeys.Lloyd Williams is...

Nick Williams has denied he and his father Lloyd have imposed any kind of media ban but says comments about their racing operation will come from them not their trainer or jockeys.Lloyd Williams is...

Aussie stars Scenic Blast and Takeover Target are at the epi-centre of a publicity storm in the UK. They'll run in an important workout at Ascot on Thursday. In fact, thyey are the superstar attrac...

TRAINER Mark Kavanagh prides himself on knowing his horses inside out, but even he learnt something about the Caulfield Cup hot favourite December Draw yesterday, reports The Age. It says: The impo...

The Irish-bred stayer Bauer has it all on the line when he runs in Wednesday's Group Three Geelong Cup.But those who know him best believe he is up to a task so famously achieved by his compatriot ...