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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...

An underarm from the Kiwis? They've suspended Nash Rawiller after his winning ride on Atomic Force in the Grp 1 Railway Stakes at Ellerslie, finding him guilty of careless riding at the 300m. He's ...

Jockey Damian Browne expects gun three-year-old Ready To Rip to send a message to his winter carnival rivals in the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday.Browne is confident Ready To Rip can s...

Improving stayer Rubiquin faces his toughest test to date when he runs in the $100,000 Comic Court Handicap (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday.The Rubiton five-year-old, prepared at Seymour by Geoff...

Italian Princess has won open sprints at her only two starts this season but her jockey Michael Coleman thinks she goes into Saturday's Railway Stakes as an improved horse.Italian Princess runs in ...