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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 star is born...That's my conclusion after watching All Too Hard demolish his rivals in the Talindert 1100m at Flemington. Few youngsters can make such a dynamic impression on debut. And no wonder...

Racing Victoria (RV) has announced the Swan Hill race meeting on Monday has been abandoned due to extreme hot weather conditions.  The welfare of both horses and human participants is of the high...

Better late than never...Racing NSW stewards have decided to shift back today's race meeting at Rosehill Gardens to counter the expected heat wave in Sydney. With temperatures set to reach well bey...

OTI Racing’s Terry Henderson is another to publicly declare Melbourne’s racetracks are too hard. Henderson, who will have two international runners in Lord Van Percy and Renew run in Saturday’s G...

Star colt Pierro heads a field of only 8 runners for Saturday's Grp 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m). Pierro and Darley's Golden Rose winner Epaulette are the only Grp 1 winners in the lineup. All Too H...

Easy does it...All Too Hard is almost back to his 'fit and ready' status and will be racing again in Sydney within a month. That's the word from co-trainer Wayne Hawkes. He says: 'He's bucking his ...