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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 Mark Kavanagh may be without stable stars Shocking and Whobegotyou until the spring but Mushatta has emerged to fill the void over the next couple of months.Kavanagh is eyeing a Queensland ...

The first yearling sale of the year has been hailed a success, allaying fears brought on by economic difficulties around the world.The four days of the premium section of the Magic Millions sale gr...

  Mick Kent has always wanted to see Philippi run over 2000 metres and he gets his chance this Friday night, when he contests the Group 2 Sportingbet Alister Clark Stakes (2040m). The son of Hos...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...

Black Prince showed he has come a long way from the horse that trainer Joe Pride once described as a "cat" when he landed his sixth consecutive victory on Wednesday and booked himself a tilt at Gro...

Smart sprinter Grand Duels will be out for successive wins on his home track at Caulfield in Sunday's Listed Christmas Stakes.Trainer Byron Cozamanis had originally been aiming the seven-year-old a...