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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...

Rosehill trainer David Payne is keeping his options open in two states with Girl Hussler but favours sending the mare north if she draws well in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben.Girl Hussle...

Centennial Park may have shaded star sprinter Hay List in an exhibition gallop recently but trainer David Payne is realistic about the honest campaigner's first-up chances.Centennial Park faces Syd...

Part-time trainer Stuart Webb will be enjoying a family holiday in the United States when dual Group One winner Yosei vies for a slice of the winter carnival riches in the Group Two Dane Ripper Sta...

Con Karakatsanis will be trackside at Doomben on Saturday to watch his two feature race runners but he will also have one eye on Rosehill.Karakatsanis will saddle up Black Piranha in the Group One ...

Michelle Payne is hopeful unbeaten Blue Diamond Stakes jockey Dwayne Dunn has finally pulled the wrong rein.Payne, 23, is chasing her first Group One win on Rose Darmore after Dunn chose the Lee Fr...

Michelle Payne is hopeful unbeaten Blue Diamond Stakes jockey Dwayne Dunn has finally pulled the wrong rein.Payne, 23, is chasing her first Group One win on Rose Darmore after Dunn chose the Lee Fr...