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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...

It has been 20 years since Melbourne trainer Steve Richards has taken a horse to Tasmania and he returns with the in-form Playwright in Monday's $400,000 Hobart Cup.Richards recalled taking Drummin...

Five-year-old Playwright is set for a drought-breaking win at his first attempt beyond 1600 metres in the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.Trained by Steve Richards, Playwright has been compet...

Stakeswinning gelding Playwright gets his chance to break a losing run stretching back nearly two years with his first test at 2000 metres at Flemington on Saturday.Trainer Steve Richards has alway...

Jockey Craig Williams will be ordered to keep an eye on the leaders when Orange County has a distance upgrade and a class drop in the Blamey Stakes at Flemington.The grey gelding has contested 1200...

Jockey Craig Williams will be ordered to keep an eye on the leaders when Orange County has a distance upgrade and a class drop in the Blamey Stakes at Flemington.The grey gelding has contested 1200...

Golden Slipper-bound Rostova has "done a treat" in Sydney and will run in a barrier trial at Randwick on Friday with race jockey Steven King aboard.Rostova and stablemate Playwright, who runs in Sa...