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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...

Mosheen has emerged as the main danger to unbeaten filly Atlantic Jewel in the Thousand Guineas after a runaway win in the Group Two Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington.Owner Phil Sly and jockey D...

A host of highly-rated youngsters will take a crucial step towards the Golden Slipper at Rosehill on Saturday when their claims to the $3.5 million race will sink or soar.The Group Two Silver Slipp...

A host of highly-rated youngsters will take a crucial step towards the Golden Slipper at Rosehill on Saturday when their claims to the $3.5 million race will sink or soar.The Group Two Silver Slipp...

Underrated gelding Soul is on track for stardom after upstaging a crack field of three-year-olds in the Group Two Danehill Stakes at Flemington.Trained by Peter Snowden, the son of Commands raced w...

Punters and Sydney racing fans have backed the new-look Golden Slipper Carnival, with strong free-to-air and pay TV audience numbers - and big increases in TAB turnover - during three days of rac...

Joy to the world...The Gai Waterhouse-trained More Joyous was the big firmer late in bettingbefore she dominated the BMW Doncaster Mile field at Randwick. TAB Sportsbet says: 'A late move from $4.4...