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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...

Caulfield trainer Mick Price has told Qld stewards that Echoes of Heaven will not be running in the Grp 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm on June 11. The colt will now be sent for a spell an...

Let me at it again...Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Americain is after the great race again. He'll have another couple of outings in France before being sent back to Australia to attempt to make ...

The races are getting harder but Jason Clifford refuses to shy away from the challenge with underrated galloper Prince Obama.The five-year-old has always impressed the Geelong trainer and when he t...

Whobegotyou showed he is the horse to beat in the Cox Plate at this stage when he resumed with a strong come-from-behind win in the PB Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield.The $3 million Cox Plate is his m...

So - the worst has happened! So You Think is lame and will not race again. The news came overnight that the great Aussie superstar has been ruled out of the Grp 1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown UK on Sa...

Local star Clare Lindop and Melbourne's Ben Melham were the big winners at Adelaide's feature meeting taking out the Group One Goodwood and SA Derby respectively.The win aboard Melbourne filly Lone...