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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...

Sydney’s boom three-year-old  Savvy Nature  will not run in the $2 million ATC Australian Derby (2400m). Trainer John O’Shea unveiled radical plans for  Savvy Nature , reports Racing Ne...

I n-form Randwick trainer John O’Shea is a little wary about running his exciting three-year-old Savvy Nature at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. The last start impressive winner of the Group 3 $150,...

Complacent has swept into Victoria Derby favoritism with  TAB.COM.AU . The Peter Snowden-trained 3YO is $18 into $6.50 to take out the Derby following his victory in the Gloaming Stakes at ...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente will headline some of the biggest names in Australian racing at Friday’s Randwick trials, reports Racing Network. He will trial in the first heat, tackling stable-ma...

From MURRAY BELL in HK Racing PostCaspar Fownes describes himself as a competitive person by nature, but the energy and focus he put into landing his second trainers' premiership was real eye-of-th...