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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...

SINCERO defied a bog track and an alarming betting drift to demonstrate why he is regarded as one of the most exciting horses in training with an outstanding win in the Listed $250,000 Gosford Guin...

Four-year-old Viking Hero has surprised his connections and won the Group Three Eclipse Stakes after they nearly scratched him because of the heavy track.Trainer Mike Moroney said he spoke to part-...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer grabbed some of the limelight from former Sydney rider Larry Cassidy when Gold Coast mare Satsang won the Listed J Cadell-Garrick Handicap at Eagle Farm.Satsang ($7), who ...

Tierqualo no longer has a wet-track duffer tag following his narrow victory in the Listed Falvelon Handicap at Eagle Farm.Tierqualo ($10) led all the way to record his first win since July last yea...

Trainer Rod Douglas says Flawless Gem will be on trial for a start in the South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes when she runs at Sandown on Wednesday.Douglas will start both Flawless Gem, a $330,0...