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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...

I was heartened to read about the return of the Punter's Podium at Randwick two weeks ago as it brought back a few nostalgic moments from the days I frequented the Randwick carnivals some years ago...

AFTER several placings and numerous close calls Lloyd Williams' bid for a first Cox Plate strengthened after  Fawkner drew favourably in Saturday's $3 million Group 1 feature, reports Racing Ne...

The bubbly served trackside and in the sumptuous marquees at this year's Melbourne Cup will still be French, but in a massive break in sponsorship and tradition, the Champagne will no longer be pou...

It's been 28 years since John Wallace won the Queensland Oaks, but he's hopeful of ending the drought with former New Zealand filly Utopia at Eagle Farm.Wallace's Queensland Oaks winner was Mother ...

It's been 28 years since John Wallace won the Queensland Oaks, but he's hopeful of ending the drought with former New Zealand filly Utopia at Eagle Farm.Wallace's Queensland Oaks winner was Mother ...

It's been 28 years since John Wallace won the Queensland Oaks, but he's hopeful of ending the drought with former New Zealand filly Utopia at Eagle Farm.Wallace's Queensland Oaks winner was Mother ...