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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...

The likelihood of a firm track threatens to derail the chances of past winners Sentire and Daka's Gem in the Ballarat Cup.Both stayers are noted wet trackers and their hopes are tempered with the m...

The likelihood of a firm track threatens to derail the chances of past winners Sentire and Daka's Gem in the Ballarat Cup.Both stayers are noted wet trackers and their hopes are tempered with the m...

Caloundra trainer Michael Jacobs landed his third metropolitan win, all with the same horse, since being forced to abandon a career as a dentist when Al Mazaya won at Eagle Farm.Al Mazaya, one of s...

Nice try but...The synthetic track failed to save Thursday's Geelong meeting after sloppy conditions forced stewards to call a halt after the first race. The meeting had been switched from Ballarat...

Rob Heathcote admits he's a realist as well as a dreamer.Still chasing his elusive first Group One win following Woorim's shock failure in Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield, Heathcot...

Trainer Guy Walter is banking on a slow tempo in the Rough Habit Plate to boost Orca's prospects in Saturday's Group Three feature at Doomben.Orca produced a superb trial for next month's Queenslan...