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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...

Hugh Bowman is a fav of punters at the moment, and many reckon he'll come up trumps at the Grafton meeting...Hughie goes to Grafton to ride the Chris Waller-trained Bellagio Wynn in the Grafton Cup...

At last there's some political commonsense on jumps racing. The departure of the Labor Govt in Victoria has seen a dramatic switch in official backing for the jumps. Latest move from Racing Victori...

Anthony Bolden will be out to land the biggest win of his training career when Brookton Mist lines up in Saturday's Macdonald Steeplechase.The meeting has been transferred to Sandown from its origi...

Anthony Bolden will be out to land the biggest win of his training career when Brookton Mist lines up in Saturday's Macdonald Steeplechase.The meeting has been transferred to Sandown from its origi...

Anthony Bolden will be out to land the biggest win of his training career when Brookton Mist lines up in Saturday's Macdonald Steeplechase.The meeting has been transferred to Sandown from its origi...

Super Saturday looms as the crisp easily-downed 'first beer' in what might just prove to be the longest of long weekends. These three days of supposed rest kick off with the timeless Newmarket Hand...