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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...

Danny Shum Chap-shing's  General Iron  has shown enough in his previous efforts at Happy Valley to suggest the drop to Class Four can see him break through in the Craigengower Cricket Club Chal...

Chris Waller has taken blinkers off Iron Lace for Saturday's AJC Australian Oaks to give the filly her best chance at trying to upstage the favourites.Iron Lace won three straight races through Feb...

Patrick Payne's dominance with a boutique group of jumpers has continued with his Grand National Hurdle hope Capecover scoring at Sandown.Former Cups horse Capecover brought up Payne's ninth jumps ...

Early price movers from TAB.com.au for Caulfield on Saturday:CAULFIELD 05/012 Shogun Star $10 - $83 First Command ($500 @ $5), Go The Knuckle ($2000 @ $2.80), Waltzes $13 - $10 ($600 @ $13)4 Cornel...

A Grand National Steeple start is in doubt for Juan Carlos after he bled from one nostril during his Crisp Steeplechase victory at Sandown.Trainer Allison Bennett would dearly love to run the 11-ye...

Trainer Patrick Payne is unlikely to raise the bar to the Melbourne Cup in November with Kerdem even if the former Irish stayer successfully defends his Queensland Cup crown at Eagle Farm on Saturd...