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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...

Brendan McCarthy's Zedi Knight heads a quality list of 27 noms for Caulfield's traditional Boxing Day feature the $120,000 Christmas Stakes (1200m). With 60kgs, the 8YO gelding faces a task to make...

Time away from the racetrack will be the making of Eye Of The Needle but trainer Keith Dryden sees no reason why the unfurnished galloper won't continue his winning run on Wednesday."Certainly he's...

Months of planning paid big dividends at Ipswich when Sydney sprinter Adnocon scored back-to-back wins in the $175,000 Eye Liner Stakes.Having his first start in four months, Adnocon defined a bett...

Shea Eden believes Flyingconi has improved since he gave the trainer his first Flemington win earlier this month and he's looking for a similar result on Saturday.The Bianconi four-year-old, who ha...

The Berry twins will be aiming for a hat-trick of Razor Sharp Handicap wins next year after Tommy Berry emulated his brother Nathan by claiming the Listed race at Randwick.Tommy Berry booted the Pa...

The Berry twins will be aiming for a hat-trick of Razor Sharp Handicap wins next year after Tommy Berry emulated his brother Nathan by claiming the Listed race at Randwick.Tommy Berry booted the Pa...