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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...

Trainer Graeme Rogerson is confident Scarlett Lady will win the Group One Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm ahead of talks in New Zealand on Monday to decide whether the filly follows the Ethereal path...

Latest betting on the Qld Oaks, from TAB Sportsbet:DARIANA 3.50 1.62 FAIRY OAK 6.00 2.25 MARHETA 6.00 2.25 FEMINA FASHION 8.00 2.75 AL NAKHLA 8.00 2.75 STATUS QUO 8.00 2.75 SPERA 10.00 3.25 LADY LI...

It ain't over til the Sth Aussie lady sings...Last year's Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed will be there to defend her title in this year's race despite finishing an ordinary 15th of 16 in Sat's...

Twenty years on from Dermot Weld’s maiden Emirates Melbourne Cup success and one of his entries for this year’s renewal turned in the Irish St Leger into a procession at the Curragh in the early ...

Gerald Ryan believes the only thing standing in the way of Synonym fending off some familiar foes in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill is something he is due for - a change of luck.Synonym is on...

Gerald Ryan believes the only thing standing in the way of Synonym fending off some familiar foes in the Listed Winter Stakes at Rosehill is something he is due for - a change of luck.Synonym is on...