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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...

Cruden Bay’s fans will be pleased to know the classy colt remains in Australia and will campaign in Melbourne this Spring Racing Carnival. The untapped youngster raised eyebrows with an emphatic L...

Early Cox Plate favorite Pierro headlines nominations for the return of night racing at Moonee Valley on Friday. With a Cox Plate assault in mind, the Gai Waterhouse-trained Triple Crown winner get...

The new-term focus for Derby hero Collection has shifted sharply, with the intended mission of landing the Group One Cox Plate in Melbourne already scrapped in favour of the Cathay Pacific Internat...

In this mornings blog I said I would be providing some reasons why some of the top chances in the main races at Scone tomorrow could be considered worth risking (please refer to that blog in conjun...

The early money has been for Nautical at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Here's the early price changes from TAB.com.au.

The weights are printed (all 29 pages) for the Easter weekend and I have to be fairly brutal as to which races I retain for serious consideration. Over long weekends like this there are so many tem...