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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...

Top Sydney filly Horizons has suffered a setback and won't run again before the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast.Trainer Gai Waterhouse had planned to give the Choisir filly one ...

Gai Waterhouse strengthened her Golden Slipper hand when Horizons put in a professional performance to win the Widden Stakes at Randwick and gain compensation for her unlucky run in the Magic Milli...

Gai Waterhouse strengthened her Golden Slipper hand when Horizons put in a professional performance to win the Widden Stakes at Randwick and gain compensation for her unlucky run in the Magic Milli...

Golden Slipper hopeful Horizons has everyone at Tulloch Lodge excited about her autumn prospects after she held her own in a star-studded barrier trial at Randwick.The Choisir filly will have her n...

Golden Slipper hopeful Horizons has everyone at Tulloch Lodge excited about her autumn prospects after she held her own in a star-studded barrier trial at Randwick.The Choisir filly will have her n...

Gai Waterhouse is looking to have four Golden Slipper runners but her biggest concern is getting the favourite into the race.More Joyous is at $4.50 in markets on the world's richest race for two-y...