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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...

SOMETHING TO WATCH (AND PERHAPS PROFIT FROM)This is a short blog, because I want to make the point and leave you to ponder it tomorrow afternoon.Caulfield is notorious for having differing "running...

It might have taken Always Something three years to get himself back in the winner's circle, but he can strike while the iron is hot with a light weight and a good draw in the Rotary Centenary Chal...

A new-found maturity has the optimistically-named Something Anything on the verge of realising a dream for his owners in the Group Two Villiers Stakes.The five-year-old beat a small but classy fiel...

All Payne, all gain...David Payne is becoming the master of producing potential top-liners from his juvenile team...At Canterbury his youngster More Than Great made a big impression winning on debu...

Something Anything's Villiers Stakes success has his team dreaming of Group One glory.The five-year-old has taken a long time to live up to trainer Gary Portelli's belief in his ability but he now ...

Gai Waterhouse's chances of scoring consecutive Golden Slipper victories received a huge boost when More Joyous stormed into favouritism for the $3.5 million race following her slashing debut victo...