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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...

Joe Pride is banking on a reunion between an elder statesman of Australia's jockey ranks and his veteran galloper Vision And Power to deliver a Group One result on Saturday.Pride confirmed Vision A...

Will we see female jockeys dominating raciing in a few years' time? Kate Mallyon reckons we will. On the comeback trail from some grim injuries, Kate has been sounding off about the 'weight power' ...

Vision And Power has answered every question put to him by Joe Pride and the trainer has no reason for doubt heading into the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes.Although Saturday's Randwick feature i...

Vision And Power has answered every question put to him by Joe Pride and the trainer has no reason for doubt heading into the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes.Although Saturday's Randwick feature i...

Vision And Power's jockey has changed but trainer Joe Pride says nothing else has ahead of Saturday's Group One Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.Nash Rawiller takes over from Jim Cassidy on Visio...

Ever backed a horse that won going away, only to watch it plod home an unplaced favourite next start? That's not bad luck — it's early pace. It's the hidden factor behind more form reversals than m...