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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...

Members Joy made a dream start to her career for the MRC Members Horse Club when she led all the way for an easy win at Sandown on Saturday.The grey two-year-old filly is nominated for the $1 milli...

Toowoomba trainer Tony Gollan achieved a lifelong ambition at the Gold Coast on Saturday but his moment of Magic Millions glory was also tinged with sadness.Gollan has always yearned to win a featu...

Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...

Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...

Sydney filly Graceful Anna continued the dream for young Warwick Farm trainer David Pfieffer with a dominant win in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast.The three-year-old lived up to her vic...

Sydney filly Graceful Anna continued the dream for young Warwick Farm trainer David Pfieffer with a dominant win in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast.The three-year-old lived up to her vic...