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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...

Just too hard...Victorian racing officials will try to have racehorses reclassified for quarantine after the shock withdrawal of Hong Kong star Able One from the Cox Plate. Able One's Aussie traine...

How bad was it...really? All the talk is about trouble-prone Hay List again. And whether connections are covering up the extent of his latest problem. Hay List threw a scare into the Brisbane carni...

Talented mare Kryptelon gave trainer David Kelly the ammunition to convince connections to continue her racetrack career with a nail-biting victory at Doomben.In a deceptive finish, Kryptelon held ...