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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 Rob Heathcote hopes jockey Larry Cassidy is a good judge as he begins to shape a winter carnival campaign for Buffering.The talented three-year-old has been in work for a month and impresse...

Robert Heathcote's decision to switch between states with Buffering has come with an unexpected bonus for the premier Queensland trainer.Buffering, with six wins in nine starts, will line up as a l...

Classy three-year-old Buffering and stablemates Woorim and Our Lukas are back in work with premier trainer Rob Heathcote who hopes to claim his first Group One success during the Brisbane winter ca...

Queensland three-year-old Buffering could make a surprise return to Sydney as part of an unorthodox campaign aimed at the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington in October.Buffering is curren...

Robert Heathcote is willing to tackle a Stradbroke Handicap hoodoo that spans 32 years to ensure brilliant sprinter Woorim earns a start in the Group One feature on June 11.Woorim burst into Stradb...

Buffering has been rated the one to beat since betting opened on the BTC Cup on April 27, says TAB Sportsbet's Matt Jenkins. He told PPD: 'The Mossman four-year-old opened $5.50 but received immedi...