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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...

Boban will enter the Memsie Stakes as the horse to beat, with TAB opening the Group One winner as the $6.00 favourite ahead of Temple Of Boom ($8.00) and Weary ($8.00). Rising Romance ($10), Se...

Owner Lloyd Williams may press ahead with a Melbourne Cup start for his Herbert Power winner Linton. It's very likely the lightly-raced 4YO will have another run before the Cup - in the Moonee Vall...

Gai Waterhouse labelled Needs Further a horse of the future and Nash Rawiller believes the colt could be a serious spring contender after an impressive Carbine Club Stakes win on Saturday.Needs Fur...

Sertorius is back in work with the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington on March 8 the Jamie Edwards and Bruce Elkington-trained gelding's initial target, reports Racing Victoria.

Lightly raced five-year-old Taknam might not have much of a galloping action, but the Peter Ng Bik-kuen-trained gelding certainly has been making it work for him and he can add the Po Leung Kuk Cen...

Olivier Doleuze will play a crucial role in determining the fortunes of Triple Trio punters at Sha Tin on Sunday and will partner last-start winner Viva Freedom, the lightly raced Super Horse and t...