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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...

Joe Pride has another rejuvenation project on his hands after taking over the training of Group One winner Court Ruler.Pride has carved a niche with his ability to revamp the careers of tried horse...

New Zealand's racing marvel Sir Slick, who almost died of rat poisoning at Christmas, was back to his brilliant best on Saturday to win his third Awapuni Gold Cup.The eight-year-old trounced favour...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...

Accomplished jumper Sand Sweeper became an unlikely leading prospect for next week's Winter Championship Final when he underlined his versatility with what jockey Michael Rodd described as a "massi...

It began with a thoroughly sensible notion that turned 300 years of conventional horse racing wisdom on its head.Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, now the ruler of Dubai, decided in the early ...