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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...

Peter Snowden and Gerald Ryan may have vastly different numbers heading into February’s $1 million Sportingbet Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), but even at this early stage they appear to have two of...

It's going to come down to whether Brett Prebble can get him out of the gates, but the John Moore-trained Straight Gold looks well up to making a winning Class One debut on the all-weather track in...

If you do not know all roads lead to Warrnambool racetrack for the next three days you must be from overseas or another planet. Back in the mid 1970's to the mid 1980's I made the annual pilgrimage...

EXTRA obstacles and an increased number of track staff are measures that Racing Victoria is hoping will eliminate the slow changeover process between hurdles and steeple brush tops when the jumps r...

The HKSAR Chief Executive's Cup has recently lost its status as a showcase for emerging talents, but that should change on Sunday and Tony Cruz-trained Peniaphobia can emerge victorious in the sea...

What a tipster! The PPD Club's Brian Blackwell maintained his stunning tipping form at the weekend with a terrific 1st/2nd strike at Rosehill on Saturday and then a one-tip masterpie...