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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...

Just too hard...Victorian racing officials will try to have racehorses reclassified for quarantine after the shock withdrawal of Hong Kong star Able One from the Cox Plate. Able One's Aussie traine...

Our Cup runneth over! There's a traffic jam for spots in the Caulfield Cup which means the Melbourne Racing Club committee could face the onerous task of selecting between five equally ranked horse...

Risen From Doubt, second favourite for the Blue Diamond, is an unlikely starter in the $1 million race. Trainer Tony McvEvoy has left Risen From Doubt, a $7 pick for the Diamond with Sportsbet.com...

Fabrizio has been crunched from $4.60 to $3.50 immediately after TAB opened the market for the Villiers Stakes.   “It just wouldn't be a feature mile race at Randwick if Gai Waterhouse didn’t ha...

Bush trainer Barry Henry is confident he can pull off a masterful performance when former Victorian mare Pray For Me makes her Brisbane debut at Eagle Farm on Monday.Pray For Me was formerly traine...

There are, I suggest, three aspects of greyhound racing handicapping. As a crowd, we tend to ignore at least one of the three. I shall list these aspects of greyhound racing in the following mann...