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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...

Gai Waterhouse has a new racing manager, with former Racing NSW chief handicapper Mark Webbey set to join Tulloch Lodge. Webbey's most recent employer was Patinack Farm, who earlier this week snaff...

Damien Oliver is the new rider for beaten Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Beneteau who steps out for his final Golden Slipper lead-up at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Paul Messara said it was a tough ...

Damien Oliver is the new rider for beaten Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Beneteau who steps out for his final Golden Slipper lead-up at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Paul Messara said it was a tough ...

Hugh Bowman will ride the promising Raceway when the Gai Waterhouse-trained juvenile makes his debut at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The son of More Than Ready notched an easy trial win at Randwick on...

Glyn Schofield will be the new rider of Golden Slipper hopeful Elimbari when she goes head-to-head with boom filly Solar Charged in Saturday's Kindergarten Stakes.Hugh Bowman partnered Elimbari to ...

Rockin' on...Rockwood is back as a key prospect for the Grp 2 1600m Villiers Stakes after a sound barrier trial hitout at Rosehill Gardens on Tuesday. Racing NSW stewards ordered the trial after pu...