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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...

FOUR-TIME premiership-winning Victorian jockey Craig Williams is back. The 34-year-old with a wealth of international experience returns to riding at Flemington today after another successful stint...

Australian jockey Craig Williams came within a neck of winning Sunday's Japan Cup aboard Tosen Jordan who was overhauled in the final strides by Buena Vista.Williams had Tosen Jordan in a handy pos...

Australia's sole representative in the Nakayama Grand Jump, Ginolad, left for Japan on Monday with his trainer Aaron Purcell.Last winter the eight-year-old became only the fourth horse and the firs...

Fresh from another successful stint in Japan, Craig Williams returns to riding in Australia at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Following the completion of his three-month contract in Japan, Williams t...

Craig Williams reckons he's got a great Melbourne Cup ride...but only if Japanese horses are allowed to enter Australia. Craig returns to Melbourne racing with a good set of rides at Wednesday'sSan...

Australian Horse of the Year Scenic Blast finally bade farewell to British shores on Tuesday morning when flying out of Cambridge airport en route to the latest leg of the Global Sprint Challenge i...