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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...

Bush trainer Darryl Dodson can't wait for the day when Finiguerra, a dual entry at Moonee Valley, decides he wants to be a genuine racehorse.The lightly-raced five-year-old has been remarkably cons...

Last-start Stawell winners and stablemates Exceptionally and Viva Delspec will take separate paths after they clash at Caulfield.Trained by Terry and Karina O'Sullivan, the promising three-year-old...

Moonee Valley was hit with 15mm of rain overnight, edging the racing surface close to the slow range ahead of the weekends Cox Plate carnival. Track manager Marty Synan said the track was officia...

Glyn Schofield has seen enough from outstanding sprinter Hay List in the past few months to know the hulking sprinter is ready for the challenge that presents itself at Moonee Valley on Saturday.Ha...