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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...

Gai Waterhouse's Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente remains in Doomben Cup calculations as connections consider a demanding UK campaign for the great stayer. The Royal Ascot meeting is the key target.

Melbourne Cup favourite Americain could be a surprise runner in Saturday week's $3 million Cox Plate following an encouraging workout at Moonee Valley on Thursday.Connections had consistently named...

Melbourne Cup favourite Americain could be a surprise runner in Saturday week's $3 million Cox Plate following an encouraging workout at Moonee Valley on Thursday.Connections had consistently named...

SOMETHING TO WATCH (AND PERHAPS PROFIT FROM)This is a short blog, because I want to make the point and leave you to ponder it tomorrow afternoon.Caulfield is notorious for having differing "running...

WHOBEGOTYOU might try to emulate the remarkable final campaign of champion mare Makybe Diva, with a Melbourne Cup run to possibly follow his Cox Plate tilt, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It say...

GOLDEN Slipper winner Sepoy is almost certain to leave Australian shores within the next 12 months - setting up the possibility of a mouth-watering clash with Black Caviar at Royal Ascot in 2012, r...