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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...

The Peter Moody trained Doubtful Jack has been installed the early fav at $2.30 (11/8) for Sat's Winter Championship final 1600m at Flemington. The IASbet.com market has DJ's stablemate Ghostmilk o...

Boy oh boy, they are still crying in their beer...Connections of trounced Trustus (10th) are still complaining about Danny Nikolic's ride in the Winter C'ship final at Flemington. Co-trainer Brian ...

Trainer Mick Kent and jockey Brad Rawiller combined to win their second consecutive Ballarat Cup on Sunday when Domesky overhauled Rothera to take the country Victorian feature.Kent and Rawiller wo...

Former Tasmanian Rocky Times is one of three horses chasing a second victory in a heat of the Winter Championship series at Flemington on Saturday.The four-year-old is among the top qualifiers for ...

Nasty stuff in the stewards' room at Flemington with trainer Brian Johnston accusing Dan Nikolic of deliberately riding to lose on Trustus in the Winter C'ship final. Insults were freely traded. Jo...

Some years ago, a close friend of mine travelled the Victorian country racing circuit. He was at just about every major bush meeting held for a period of some six years. He eventually gave it awa...