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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...

Has Bart Cummings got a shock or two up his sleeve for the spring? You never know! His Melbourne Cup prospect Precedence was at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning with stablemate Do You Think. The 6Y...

No worries, mate...The spring campaign of well-backed Cups hope Shamrocker is still 'on track' despite her lacklustre performance in Sat's Underwood. Trainer Danny O'Brien says the mare will conti...

Will well-fancied stayer Precedence be able to sneak into the Caulfield Cup field without another start? This is what trainer Bart Cummings is hoping for. That1.5kgs penalty he got for his JRA Cup ...

FLEMINGTON trainer Mark Kavanagh will have the favourite in the three major spring carnival races in Melbourne over the next seven weeks if the most crucial missing piece to the puzzle can fall nea...

Saturday’s Group 1 $400,000 Underwood Stakes (1800m) is set to be the race of the Spring after the Melbourne Racing Club received 26 nominations on Monday.

CONTROVERSIAL galloper Precedence may have to win Saturday's Lexus Stakes at Flemington to secure a Melbourne Cup start despite rising from 30th to 26th in order after third declarations yesterday,...