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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...

Owner-breeder Tony Cavanagh is hoping lightning can strike twice when promising colt Andre Roo Hoo runs in next month's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.Cavanagh, who bred Andre Roo Hoo ...

Speedy mare La Bella Roo is set to emulate her New Year's Eve success of 12 months ago at Moonee Valley.The six-year-old daughter of Bel Esprit will contest Saturday night's $100,000 Premium Mares ...

A chance buy at the Adelaide Magic Millions is starting to pay off for Kyneton trainer Neil Dyer with promising mare Belle Diva.A winner of three of her nine starts, the four-year-old has already r...

Darren Gauci will be offered next month's Magic Millions Trophy ride on Tempest Tost after her preliminary assignment at Moonee Valley.Gauci has forged a winning relationship with the Tasmanian fil...

Smart Tasmanian filly Tempest Tost earned a trip to Queensland for the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy when she ploughed through the heavy conditions to win at Flemington.The Statue Of Liberty thr...

Exciting two-year-old Jimando will reunite with his debut-winning jockey Nash Rawiller, raising Tony McEvoy's hopes he can land his second win in the Group Two Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington.M...