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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...

Latest betting on the Melbourne Cup sees the French pair Americain and Dunaden dominating the market at $6.00 (5/1) followed by the UK duo Red Cadeaux and Mount Athos at $9.00 (8/1). The Betstar ma...

Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux will not be running in this year’s Caulfield Cup as previously touted by UK trainer Ed Dunlop, reports Racing Network.

Trainer Brendan Woodman and his co-owners are chasing the dream of having a Melbourne Cup starter with Completion who will be trying to improve his position in the elimination order with a win in W...

Trainer Brendan Woodman and his co-owners are chasing the dream of having a Melbourne Cup starter with Completion who will be trying to improve his position in the elimination order with a win in W...

NEXT year's Melbourne Cup looks poised to have even more of an international flavour with the race's key recruiter announcing that the first four past the post in Sunday's Japan Cup would be target...

Are connections really serious about a Melbourne Cup bid by jumps star Black And Bent? He won in strong fashion at Warrnambool on Sunday but it's stretching the elastic to suggest he can win our gr...