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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 word legend is a loosely used term in sport but on the turf this year there was one horse, Sea The Stars, who undoubtedly achieved that status.The Hong Kong-owned Irish-trained colt lit up the ...

The word legend is a loosely used term in sport but on the turf this year there was one horse, Sea The Stars, who undoubtedly achieved that status.The Hong Kong-owned Irish-trained colt lit up the ...

Dual Cox Plate winner So You Think is scheduled to have his first European start for Irish training legend Aidan O'Brien at the Curragh on Monday.Trained by Bart Cummings in Australia to win eight ...

Irish training legend Dermot Weld is relaxed and confident about the chances of Galileo's Choice giving him a third Emirates Melbourne Cup victory at Flemington. Weld, who arrived from the Breeders...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...