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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...

Early season two-year-old winner Smart Missile has overcome a minor setback and is set to make his first public appearance since the spring at Rosehill on Tuesday.Smart Missile was scratched from a...

Controversial Golden Slipper scratching Smart Missile is back in the running for autumn carnival spoils.Smart Missile took part in a hastily-arranged jumpout in front of stewards on Monday and was ...

A lack of race fitness and a distance query has Bill Pholi concerned about Royal Reign's prospects in the Listed Brisbane Handicap at Doomben.But the Ballina trainer is happy she is in his stable a...

Mark Kavanagh is giving promising staying filly Rain Shadow a light winter program with a view to bigger spring prizes.A slow maturing three-year-old, the half-sister to former top Kenvain stayer R...

Mark Kavanagh is giving promising staying filly Rain Shadow a light winter program with a view to bigger spring prizes.A slow maturing three-year-old, the half-sister to former top Kenvain stayer R...

Mark Kavanagh is giving promising staying filly Rain Shadow a light winter program with a view to bigger spring prizes.A slow maturing three-year-old, the half-sister to former top Kenvain stayer R...