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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...

When Queenslander Shoot Out won the Sires' Produce Stakes in Brisbane last May, trainer John Wallace already had his eye on the AJC Australian Derby.Shoot Out's half-sister had only recently won th...

Gold Coast trainer John Wallace declared Shoot Out would win the Cox Plate, and added he wouldn't run in the Melbourne Cup unless he thought he could win it too, following his victory in the JJ Lis...

Gold Coast trainer John Wallace declared Shoot Out would win the Cox Plate, and added he wouldn't run in the Melbourne Cup unless he thought he could win it too, following his victory in the JJ Lis...

Gold Coast trainer John Wallace declared Shoot Out would win the Cox Plate, and added he wouldn't run in the Melbourne Cup unless he thought he could win it too, following his victory in the JJ Lis...

Gold Coast trainer John Wallace declared Shoot Out would win the Cox Plate, and added he wouldn't run in the Melbourne Cup unless he thought he could win it too, following his victory in the JJ Lis...

Peter Snowden is convinced Kidnapped races best in the anticlockwise direction but will give him one more chance to prove him wrong in Saturday's Group One Rosehill Guineas.All four of Kidnapped's ...