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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...

NZ star  Mongolian Khan  is likely to likely to do all his racing in Australia this Spring, reports racing.com. Andrew Forsman, who trains in partnership with  Murray Baker , said a plan had not ...

An Encosta De Lago colt from the family of last year's AJC Sires' Produce winner Manhattan Rain has fetched $620,000 at the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast.Gai Waterhouse, Manhattan Rain's tr...

An Encosta De Lago colt from the family of last year's AJC Sires' Produce winner Manhattan Rain has fetched $620,000 at the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast.Gai Waterhouse, Manhattan Rain's tr...

Murray Baker  has praised his Caulfield Cup favorite   Mongolian Khan  as one of the best he has had in his stable, reports racing.com. Baker, who has won some of Australia's biggest races with ...

David Hayes echoes the sentiments of most of his rival trainers ahead of Saturday's Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington, where All Too Hard will start a red hot favourite.''He's a really smart...

David Payne has thrown his support behind an initiative to hold an 1800-metre race for two-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.The trainer has nominated three juveniles for the race and says it is vi...