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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...

The best thing about working for Gai Waterhouse is that you are, almost automatically, on a winner.The second best thing - or perhaps the worst - is that when you turn one of those Waterhouse winne...

JUST THE FACTS M'AM, JUST THE FACTSAs I wrote on the intro, George just wanted the facts. No embellishment.That suits me fine today because I want to make just one point which might make you some e...

UK r acing pundit John McCririck - infamous for his tongue in cheek tirades against Australians - has lost his age discrimination employment tribunal case against Channel 4 in Britain. The 73-year...

A perfect barrier draw has Josh Parr confident he can reunite with Skytrain for a stakes victory at Randwick on Saturday.Parr hasn't ridden the Peter Snowden-trained Skytrain since claiming back-to...

A last-minute decision to run Break Card at Randwick paid off when the filly made up for her disappointing effort last start to score a decisive win.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he waited until after 7...

A last-minute decision to run Break Card at Randwick paid off when the filly made up for her disappointing effort last start to score a decisive win.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he waited until after 7...