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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...

A chance buy at the Adelaide Magic Millions is starting to pay off for Kyneton trainer Neil Dyer with promising mare Belle Diva.A winner of three of her nine starts, the four-year-old has already r...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva will be covered by champion Vinery stallion More Than Ready next season.Makybe Diva, whose first son by Galileo was sold for $1.5 million at this year's ...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva will be covered by champion Vinery stallion More Than Ready next season.Makybe Diva, whose first son by Galileo was sold for $1.5 million at this year's ...

Punters' pal Boban has opened the $4.40 favourite with TAB for Saturday’s Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington.  The resuming Fawkner looks likely to give the most competition, next in the ...

CAULFIELD trainer Peter Moody believes that Typhoon Tracy's only racetrack defeat can be easily explained and maintains the mare will be better suited under the racing conditions of today's Makybe ...

The first filly out of champion mare Makybe Diva sold for $1.2 million on the first day of the Australian Easter Yearling Sales in Sydney on Tuesday but was surpassed as the day's top-lot by a Redo...