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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...

Caloundra trainer Michael Jacobs landed his third metropolitan win, all with the same horse, since being forced to abandon a career as a dentist when Al Mazaya won at Eagle Farm.Al Mazaya, one of s...

ONE week ago the Caulfield Cup wasn’t in the picture for UK based  Dandino , but now he’s a confirmed starter for the $3 million Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup, reports Racing Network. Marco...

At last, sanity prevails...On appeal Talia Rodder has beaten that much criticised 6 weeks suspension for her ride on Serene Tanie. The Victorian Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board upheld her app...

Justice and commonsense prevails...Not surprisingly, an appeal hearing has thrown out the one-month suspension given to Kerrin McEvoy for his losing ride on Shakes at Randwick on March 18. Stewards...

Another lucrative pay day looms for Diamond Earth at Rosehill when the Anthony Cummings trained filly attacks the $250,000 Inglis Classic.Halfway through the season, Diamond Earth is the poster gir...

Held at a racecourse that could just as easily have been sold off as a graveyard, the Caulfield Cup boasts a tradition almost as old as the Melbourne Cup.Many trainers say the race is even harder t...