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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...

Tony Cruz continues to put pressure on his rivals in the four-cornered contest for the trainers' championship

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Canberra mare Gathering Light has come through a torrid last-start run well and is ready to make amends at Randwick on Wednesday.Trainer Matthew Dale, who is holidaying in the United States, said t...

Windicator Star came with a good reputation from Australia last season and he looks ready to take his first step towards backing it up in the Chinese General Chamber Of Commerce Cup (1,000m) today ...

In-form trainer Marc Conners believes his dynamic winter duo Mossurmi and Mr Clangtastic will both be hard to hold out at Randwick on Saturday even if the track is not heavy.The track in Sydney's e...