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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...

At last, someone's had a go at those BIG fields at the tricky Doomben track. Trainer Peter Moody believes there are too many runners in most races and that owners are currently wasting their time s...

Consistent galloper La Rocket capped off a long winter and spring campaign with a comfortable win in the inaugural Listed Spring Classic at Seymour.Prepared by Dale Sutton, the gelding will be spel...

Consistent galloper La Rocket capped off a long winter and spring campaign with a comfortable win in the inaugural Listed Spring Classic at Seymour.Prepared by Dale Sutton, the gelding will be spel...

LOCAL hero Rocket Man fired a warning shot to his visiting rivals when he starred yesterday in an important trackwork session leading into Sunday's group 1 Krisflyer Stakes at Kranji racetack in Si...

Go, Kenny, go...Veteran semi-retired turf scribbler Ken Callander has paid out on those crazy new whip rules. In his Daily Telegraphcolumn, Ken rages: 'Sydney and Melbourne should go their own way ...

Classy Lightning but not many runners...Looks like Sat's Lightning Stakes at Flemington will not have a huge field. There are only 15 entries. US sprint star Cannonball is one of them. He clocked t...