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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...

Godolphin look set to continue their quest for an elusive Melbourne Cup in 2013

Durable Godolphin stayer Lost In The Moment , a regular fixture in Melbourne over the last two Spring Racing Carnivals, will open his 2013 account in tonight’s (AET) Listed Fred Archer Stakes (2...

Racing Victoria has today announced two international horses here for the Melbourne spring will race under different names. UK mare  Ambivalent , trained by emerging young mentor Roger Varian, wi...

Making the Melbourne Cup field has been made harder under a raft of changes to the race.Horses must win at least a Listed race or place in a Group race of 2300 metres or further to pass the first b...

While he will continue to unveil the seemingly never-ending production line of Godolphin’s juveniles at Warwick Farm on Tuesday, John O’Shea will also showcase two of his potential autumn and spri...

NEARLY 12 months ago to the day, Kerrin McEvoy left the Sandown quarantine centre with a confident smile on his face having partnered Godolphin's spring carnival raider All The Good in a stirring g...