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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...

How many of us knew that mighty NZ mare Sunline would lead in the Cox Plate? I guess it wouldn't have taken a racing Einstein to figure it out. Yet that one piece of information might well have en...

Mentally there are fewer greater challenges to the average person than to survive the rigors of what we humans call life especially in the raising of a family. There is, however, another great chal...

Mentally there are fewer greater challenges to the average person than to survive the rigors of what we humans call life especially in the raising of a family. There is, however, another great chal...

The overwhelming first impression of the Hong Kong Exchanges Challenge Cup (1,000m) at Happy Valley is of a race stacked with pace and that might open the way for an upset from a horse who is not...

John Moore and John Size have owned the Group Two Chairman's Trophy over the past decade but the aces lie with the latter in today's edition with  Contentment  getting the race map to land the tro...

The former Australian galloper  Winning King  has been working up to something and a drop in class coincides nicely for him with the Hong Kong Football Club Centenary Challenge Cup (1,200m) at ...