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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...

A quieter morning on track this morning after the rousing gallop from Dandino yesterday. The final touches are going on a couple of the internationals on before their Australian debuts on Saturda...

Forty eight hours away from Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup (3200m), the UK raider  Mount Athos, trained by Luca Cumani, has emerged favorite at $7.50 (13/2).

Latest trackwork (Oct 12) for the international raiders from the Werribee quarantine track (from Racing Victoria):

Fiorente and Dandino are the most popular Melbourne Cup runners on Cup eve, says TAB. The details:

At 4pm on Sunday, the TAB had Fiorente the favorite for the Melbourne Cup at $7.00 (6/1).

The Underwood Stakes quinella of It’s A Dundeel and Atlantic Jewel head a list of 14 nominations in Saturday’s $402,000 Group 1 Cathay Pacific Caulfield Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield. Whether It’s ...