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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...

SECOND declarations for the Melbourne Cup close on Monday and the squeeze is itensifying for the final spots in the $6.2 million nation-stopping race. As usual the Cup landscape can shift dramati...

Trainer David Kelly could have his first Group One runner in New Zealand next month if Eire Of Magic is successful in the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben on Saturday.Kelly, 40, a former ...

Trainer David Kelly could have his first Group One runner in New Zealand next month if Eire Of Magic is successful in the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben on Saturday.Kelly, 40, a former ...

PAUL Snowden was feeling a little spoilt yesterday after the super workout of star colt Sepoy at Seymour further heightened his expectations of fellow elite colt Helmet's return at Flemington tomor...

Unwanted as a yearling, Glare might not be bound for Group One glory just yet but he certainly proved his detractors wrong yet again with an all-the-way win at Doomben on Wednesday.A four-year-old ...

It will be a couple of months before the TAB releases its first AAMI Victoria Derby market, but when it does Drago is almost certain to be at the top of it.