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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...

The word legend is a loosely used term in sport but on the turf this year there was one horse, Sea The Stars, who undoubtedly achieved that status.The Hong Kong-owned Irish-trained colt lit up the ...

The word legend is a loosely used term in sport but on the turf this year there was one horse, Sea The Stars, who undoubtedly achieved that status.The Hong Kong-owned Irish-trained colt lit up the ...

British raider Raven's Pass blew past heralded Curlin to win the $US5 million ($A7.43 million) Breeders' Cup Classic to cap a stellar showing for Europe in the $US25.5 million ($A37.88 million) wee...