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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...

Forty-five percent of the 173 horses entered for this year’s $2.5 million Caulfield Cup are northern hemisphere bred. This represents a huge difference in the direction of Australia’s trainers wh...

Saturday’s Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield is set to bring together a line-up of horses bellying its Group 3 status if today’s nominations are any indication. Entries were extended for the $1...

A mixture of high-class locals and exciting internationals make up 173 nominations for the world’s richest 2400-metre turf handicap, the $2.5 million Group 1 BMW Caulfield Cup. Nine of the first ...

TAB's wtrapup of Saturday's racing: RANDWICK RACE ONE Holler was a massive go in the first ($1.75) holding 75 percent of the money, however, it was Spill The Beans ($6-$4.80) that spoiled...

The 2013 Sportingbet Cox Plate remains on track to host its first European-trained runner in almost a decade. English pair Side Glance and Mull of Killough were among the 90 horses that were paid...

Australasia’s established stars, high-profile internationals and the next generation of weight-for-age stars headline this year’s Sportingbet Cox Plate nominations, which closed at noon on Tuesd...