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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...

Grahame Begg says he has been forced to run debutante Military Blonde out of her grade in the Silver Slipper, but also says she is a filly with enormous potential.Military Blonde was one of four ho...

Trainer Grahame Begg looks to have struck a nice balance for his two-pronged assault on Saturday's Listed Keith Mackay Quality at Randwick.In Mafia Miss he will have the most experienced two-year-o...

Grahame Begg says he has been forced to run debutante Military Blonde out of her grade in the Silver Slipper, but also says she is a filly with enormous potential.Military Blonde was one of four ho...

Brenton Avdulla will miss the plum ride on Group One winner Secret Admirer in the Tramway Handicap after being suspended for careless riding at Canterbury on Wednesday.Corey Brown was quickly secur...

The decision to take the plunge and start debutante Matignon on a wet track proved a winning one for trainer Guy Walter and the Darley operation.One of 11 fillies Walter trains for Sheikh Mohammed,...

Debutante Danza Doll emerged as a possible Golden Slipper bolter for trainer David Payne following her outstanding win at Randwick on Tuesday.The Dehere filly isn't nominated for the $3.5 million r...