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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...

Trainer Todd Pletcher finally got the monkey off his back, while jockey Calvin Borel continued his amazing dominance of America's most famous race when Super Saver rallied to win Saturday's Kentuck...

The local horses have generally had the wood on the visitors in a decade of the $2 million Hong Kong Macau Trophy (1,400m) and rarely has there been a horse looking as well suited to the event as...

Top jockey  Nick Hall hopes to be back for the tail end of the Victorian Festival of Racing carnival after undergoing hip surgery late last month, reports Racing Network.

WITH All Too Hard appearing to have a mortgage on Saturday's $500,000 Australian Guineas, the second tier three-year-olds are now opting for the rich $1 million Australian Cup the following week, r...

Mark Kavanagh has savoured Cox Plate jubilation, but he may enjoy the moment again this spring with Super Cool, who emerged from a Victoria Derby recap to claim Sat's Australian Cup. Kavanagh ident...

The noms for Saturday's Grp 2 $200,000 Hobartville Stakes suggest the 1400-metre 3YO affair could be a race for the ages. Gai Waterhouse's super-duo Pierro and Proisir, Spring Champion Stakes winne...