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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...

Super mare Winx has opened at $1.80 with TAB in the market for Australia’s richest weight for age race, April’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Winx’s nearest rival is Melbourne Cup favourite Hartnell at...

Cattle grazier Michael Lucey is counting down the days to starting a new chapter in his life as a trainer after watching one of his breeding ventures, Trace Of Silver, score a memorable win at Doom...

Winx may be the punters favourite but it’s not the case with bookmakers, with TAB having paid out more than $8.2 million during her 12-race winning streak. Punters are once again expected to cl...

Final chapter...Dick Francis, great jumps jockey and best-selling author of racing crime novels, has died at 89. He retired from riding in 1957 to begin his writing career with his autobiography Th...

An academic colleague vaguely interested in horse racing (a rare breed!), asked me if I had heard of a book he was reading about horse racing and written by a psychology professor in America. I us...

Globetrotting trainer Richard Gibson has had some interesting experiences in his travels with horses around the world with his next to come at Flemington on Tuesday when he saddles up Varevees, the...