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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...

Almindoro will begin a light autumn campaign aimed at the Group Two Alister Clark Stakes when he resumes at Sandown on Saturday.The Redoute's Choice three-year-old is still a maiden after five star...

Steve Richards believes Almindoro can set himself up to chase a lucrative spring target if he races to expectations at Sandown.The Redoute's Choice four-year-old showed plenty of promise last seaso...

Almindoro gets the chance to vindicate trainer Steve Richards' judgment he is a true Classic type when he lines up in Saturday's blue-ribbon Victoria Derby.Almindoro is the first Redoute's Choice R...

TWO days after he completes his commitments on the final meeting

Heavyweight jockey Jamie Mott has retained the mount on exciting three-year-old Under The Eiffel after trainer Tony Vasil agonised about whether he would engage a claiming apprentice for the geldin...

Retrieve confirmed his favouritism for the $1.5 million Victoria Derby at Flemington in two weeks with a solid win in the Group Three Norman Robinson Stakes at Caulfield.Already proven in the groun...