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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...

An AJC Australian Oaks nomination instead of an Adelaide campaign goes on the line for Cool Flyer when the bargain-buy filly races at Randwick on Wednesday.Cool Flyer, purchased for $5000 as a year...

Jockey Dan Nikolic has been engaged to try to help first up specialist Secret Flyer to a second win in the Listed Kensington Stakes at Flemington.Trainer Mark Young has targeted Saturday's feature ...

Robert Smerdon says it could be only a matter of time before Eclair Flyer proves himself as good as his more accomplished stablemate Eclair Mystic.Both three-year-olds are owned by Macau Jockey Clu...

Tommy Berry is hoping to end his apprenticeship on the best possible note with Group One success at Rosehill on Saturday.Berry has been granted permission from Racing NSW to come out of his time a ...

Trainer Anthony Cummings's autumn plans have suffered another setback with sprinter-miler Turffontein ruled out of the Sydney carnival.A veterinary examination confirmed the multiple Group One-plac...

Trainer Anthony Cummings's autumn plans have suffered another setback with sprinter-miler Turffontein ruled out of the Sydney carnival.A veterinary examination confirmed the multiple Group One-plac...