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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...

Jockey Glyn Schofield will derive great satisfaction if Hawk Island can cross the line first in Saturday's Group One Metropolitan.Schofield has developed a soft spot for the former English galloper...

Leading trainer David Hall showed he has plenty more ammunition in the can with his stable dominating yesterday's barrier trials at Sha Tin and suggesting he will soon be adding to his tally of 17 ...

Blinkers will go back on multiple Group One winner Sniper's Bullet in a bid to ride him more aggressively in Saturday's Apollo Stakes at Rosehill.Sniper's Bullet got out of his ground from a wide g...

Craig Williams is banking on the renowned horse skills of trainer Robbie Laing to help him win his first Group One Blue Diamond Stakes aboard She's Got Gears.Williams, who has had a busy week ridin...

Craig Williams is banking on the renowned horse skills of trainer Robbie Laing to help him win his first Group One Blue Diamond Stakes aboard She's Got Gears.Williams, who has had a busy week ridin...

This month, lit our look at the writings of the late R.W ‘Georgie’ Wood, we examine his thoughts on staking and selection. Wood was a great believer in ‘perming’ and linking multiple selections in...