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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...

Chris Waller left it until late in the day but Sikka did the job to stretch the trainer's remarkable run of winners at his home track to 21 consecutive Rosehill Saturday meetings.Jockey Glyn Schofi...

Chris Waller left it until late in the day but Sikka did the job to stretch the trainer's remarkable run of winners at his home track to 21 consecutive Rosehill Saturday meetings.Jockey Glyn Schofi...

Stratford couldn't have been more impressive first-up but experienced hoop Rod Quinn wants to see him back it up with another winning performance at Rosehill on Saturday.The John, Michael and Wayne...

Serene Tanie led all the way at Caulfield on Saturday to win her second race since Talia Rodder's controversial front running ride on the mare at Moonee Valley last month.Rodder was suspended for s...

Chance Bye, the fairytale filly of this year's autumn carnival, has suffered a setback in a jumpout at Kembla and trainer Michael Tubman is unsure when she will return to the races.The Silver Slipp...

Chance Bye, the fairytale filly of this year's autumn carnival, has suffered a setback in a jumpout at Kembla and trainer Michael Tubman is unsure when she will return to the races.The Silver Slipp...