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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...

Tears flow...Britain's bookmakers were facing payouts stretching into eight figures after Tony McCoy's UK Grand National victory on Don't Push It. The weight of support behind racing's best-known j...

Grand Duels has earned another crack at Group One glory with an empathic victory in the Listed Kensington Stakes at Flemington.Already a dual placegetter at the elite level, the seven-year-old is i...

Grand Duels has earned another crack at Group One glory with an empathic victory in the Listed Kensington Stakes at Flemington.Already a dual placegetter at the elite level, the seven-year-old is i...

Grand National winning jockey Tony McCoy was fined for using his mobile phone while driving just hours after his victory in the world's greatest steeplechase.In an article on the Daily Telegraph we...

Grand National winning jockey Tony McCoy was fined for using his mobile phone while driving just hours after his victory in the world's greatest steeplechase.In an article on the Daily Telegraph we...

John Wheeler will shoot for his fifth victory in the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool with Tobouggie Nights and he believes the gelding has the right credentials to deliver it.The six-year-...