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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...

Group One winner Atomic Force remains in training in the hope he can secure a Hong Kong Sprint invitation."We've thrown in a nomination and he's had two inoculations so now it's a matter of waiting...

Trainer Tony Noonan will give Ortensia a solid 1200m hitout when she has an exhibition gallop with a companion at Sandown on Wednesday in preparation for next month's Hong Kong Sprint.The Testa Ros...

Douro Valley could be Australia's sole representative at the rich international meeting in Hong Kong.Although disappointed the gelding was beaten by Zipping in Saturday's Sandown Classic, trainer D...

Sydney sprinter Whitefriars 9/2 and the Melbourne-trained True Persuasion 15/2 are the only interstate sprinters in Sat's Grp 2 Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot. Last year's winner Ortensia did not acc...

Australian mare Ortensia has finished a gallant fifth in the Hong Kong International Sprint at Sha Tin won by South African J J The Jet Plane.The Tony Noonan-trained Ortensia was Australia's only r...

Hong Kong is at it again - waving the arrogance stick at Australia. The Hong Kong Jockey Club has denied an invitation for Australian Grp I winner Atomic Force to contest the Hong Kong Internationa...