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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...

JUST over a year ago, John Symons and Sheila Laxon had to put down Daintree Duke - a horse they considered could have been the best they had ever trained - after an accident, reports The Age.It say...

The win by two-year-old Sheila's Star at Moonee Valley on Monday signalled a new beginning for co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon who are rebuilding their team.Symons, who trained former star...

The win by two-year-old Sheila's Star at Moonee Valley on Monday signalled a new beginning for co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon who are rebuilding their team.Symons, who trained former star...

In-form mare Sheila's Star has been nominated for a stakes race in Adelaide this weekend as a precaution against missing a start in the Listed Anniversary Vase on her home track at Caulfield.Traine...

Mick Price will rely on Testa My Patience in the Pink Ribbon Cup at Caulfield while stablemate Sheila's Star will run in the City Of Adelaide Handicap at Morphettville.Price accepted with both hors...

Bendigo Cup winner Zupacool will be a starter in the Grp 2 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2500m) on Emirates Stakes day at Flemington. Co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon will be hoping he can again ...