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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...

THE powerful racing outfit Godolphin Operation is under a cloud

Veteran turf scribe Max Presnell has launched a scathing attack on the Australian Turf Club.

Darley dabbles...The big and hungry Darley outfit will showcase three of its Blue Diamond hopefuls in two States next Saturday to ramp up the assault on the $1 million race. Montsegur and Kuroshio ...

JOCKEY Peter Hutchinson's colourful and amazing career could take another significant turn today at Caulfield as he attempts to break a city-winning drought that has stood for almost a decade when ...

Bookmaker innovation...Yes, the bookies are coming up with ingenious ways to keep interest flowing among punters, especially in races where a 'standout' chance looms, just like champion sprinter Bl...

What's going on with the Lloyd Williams outfit at Mt Macedon? Is Robert Hickmott still his #1 trainer? No-one seems to know the real story, although The Age on Monday reports Williams denying he ha...