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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...

RACING Victoria international recruiter Leigh Jordon says the win by Galileo's Choice in yesterday's 2400m Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown, Ireland, could persuade Irish trainer Dermot Weld to tac...

NEXT year's Melbourne Cup looks poised to have even more of an international flavour with the race's key recruiter announcing that the first four past the post in Sunday's Japan Cup would be target...

Rocket Man won't be a $1 million Patinack Farm Classic entry after trainer Patrick Shaw decided the Singapore sprinter would have to spend too much time in quarantine.Shaw told Racing Victoria inte...

Here we go again? Pacemaker supremo Aidan O'Brien may be returning to Australia for another crack at the Melbourne spring carnival. Aidan really made an impact last time he was here. Remember the c...

RED Cadeaux, who won Saturday's Curragh Cup in Ireland, will be targeted for the Melbourne Cup as part of an ambitious recruiting program, rerports The Age. It says: Red Cadeaux won the 2800-metre ...

THE connections of Dunaden might have emerged as big winners after snaring Sunday's Hong Kong Vase (2400 metres) on the way home to France, but while the Victoria Racing Club will not see a cent of...