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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...

A plan hatched in the autumn will come to fruition for trainer Bede Murray at Randwick on Saturday when Darci Be Good bids to deliver him a second Group One Spring Champion Stakes victory.Murray, w...

New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...

New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...

New Zealand Derby winner Coniston Bluebird is back in work preparing for a tilt at the major spring races and perhaps a few more overseas.Trainer Bede Murray said Coniston Bluebird would be inocula...

Betting turnaround...Bletchingly winner Shoot Out has replaced So You Think as early favourite for the Cox Plate. But the big question now centres on how much weight he'll get for the Caulfield and...

The great unknown for all but one of the AJC Australian Derby contenders is their ability to run a strong 2400 metres.The great certainty for trainer Bede Murray regarding Coniston Bluebird is his ...