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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...

A deflated Corey Brown admitted he would have to produce something special to get Mirjulisa Lass home from the outside alley in Saturday's Group One AJC Australian Oaks."That's the last thing I wan...

THOUSANDS of Australian racing fans are expected at Royal Ascot for the final day of the meeting on Saturday to cheer on their superstar mare Black Caviar and trainer Peter Moody is predicting they...

Jim Cassidy has had many special victories at Randwick in his long career and will be out for more at the track's 150th anniversary meeting on Saturday.He fondly recalls the day he rode Hunter to w...

Jim Cassidy has had many special victories at Randwick in his long career and will be out for more at the track's 150th anniversary meeting on Saturday.He fondly recalls the day he rode Hunter to w...

Jim Cassidy has had many special victories at Randwick in his long career and will be out for more at the track's 150th anniversary meeting on Saturday.He fondly recalls the day he rode Hunter to w...

Jim Cassidy has had many special victories at Randwick in his long career and will be out for more at the track's 150th anniversary meeting on Saturday.He fondly recalls the day he rode Hunter to w...