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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 Gerald Ryan is considering a change of riding tactics for Hot Snitzel in the erratic youngster's bid to deny the Darley juggernaut victory in the Group Two Sires' Produce Stakes at Eagle Fa...

Glen Boss reckons Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar is shaping up bigger and better than last season. "I had a good look at him on Derby Day and he's a hell of a lot stronger now," Boss says. ...

He's lean and mean but most importantly he's happy.Four-year-old Giresun has proven a handful for trainer Peter Snowden and has even been known to wear a muzzle to stop him savaging people around t...

Almost out before he's even in...The outlook's not bright for Queensland Derby (2400m) winner Brambles. He's having problems recovering from travel sickness and trainer Peter Moody says the stayer'...

Danny Nikolic says he has found his Caulfield Guineas mount in the promising Amah Rock who won the Listed Mitchell McKenzie Stakes at just his second start.A narrow winner of an Echuca maiden on hi...

Newcastle Gold Cup winner Streetfighter will take a shot at nabbing a Grp 1 win by targeting the AJC Metropolitan at Randwick on Oct 3. His Cup win has taken his career record to 8 wins, 2 seconds ...