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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...

If the Liston Stakes is any guide, last season's three-year-olds look set to prove themselves a bumper crop.Trainer Leon Macdonald is among those who believe this year's four-year-olds can dominate...

Peter Snowden rates Friday night's Canterbury Classic field as the best he's seen for this time of year despite the scratching of star Queensland speedster Burdekin Blues.Sydney's reigning premier ...

Predatory Pricer's Liston Stakes victory has propelled him to the top of Caulfield Cup markers but it is runner-up Whobegotyou who remains all the rage for the Cox Plate.The J J Liston (1400m) on S...

Predatory Pricer's Liston Stakes victory has propelled him to the top of Caulfield Cup markers but it is runner-up Whobegotyou who remains all the rage for the Cox Plate.The J J Liston (1400m) on S...