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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...

Gold Coast trainer Maryann Thexton has changed plans with promising filly Merryanna who will now be a surprise starter in the Listed Widden Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.Thexton originally intende...

Arpinati  is still to break his maiden status locally but the former Italian gets an ideal set-up to do it in style in the Hong Kong Macau Trophy (1,400m) at Sha Tin today, reports the HK Racing...

Clarry Conners has unearthed a couple of talented two-year-olds in recent weeks and the four-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer still has an ace or two to play.Widden Stakes winner Georgette Silk ...

Clarry Conners has unearthed a couple of talented two-year-olds in recent weeks and the four-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer still has an ace or two to play.Widden Stakes winner Georgette Silk ...

What beautifully-bred filly Bombay lacks in size she makes up for in other departments.That's trainer David Payne's assessment of the Encosta De Lago juvenile who lines up in the Golden Slipper Fes...

What beautifully-bred filly Bombay lacks in size she makes up for in other departments.That's trainer David Payne's assessment of the Encosta De Lago juvenile who lines up in the Golden Slipper Fes...