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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...

David Hayes will attempt to further improve his tally of Melbourne winners this season when he saddles up five runners at Sandown on Saturday.Hayes is still in a rebuilding phase at his new state-o...

The great winning streak continues apace for the PPD Club - with some fantastic successes on Wednesday.

These days the AJC doesn't seem to even have legs...That's the damning verdict of veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell in the SMH. Feisty Max says: 'Last Thursday the once principal club announced a...

Resurgent trainer David Hayes is taken by recent stable addition Spacecraft who will be out to foil Whobegotyou's bid for a third consecutive Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.O...

Ben faces the music...Ben Melham - riding in the best form of his career - faces a big moment in his life on Thursday. He'll gived evidence at an adjourned inquiry into his riding tactics on Cross ...

Trainer David Hayes says Changingoftheguard has him guessing heading into the autumn but was thrilled with how he competed against another English stayer, Our Aqaleem, in an exhibition gallop at Sa...