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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...

Anthony Cummings is bullish about the prospects of Strike The Stars turning the tables on last-start conqueror Mosheen when they clash in Saturday's Randwick Guineas.Mosheen had the measure of Stri...

Group One autumn targets remain undecided for boom sprinter Rain Affair but trainer Joe Pride is single minded in his ambitions for another of his stable stars in Sacred Choice.Both Rain Affair and...

Two of NSW's biggest stars of the turf, Hay List and Hot Danish, will headline the opening day of the Sydney autumn carnival when they clash in the Expressway Stakes next month.Trainer John McNair ...

Workforce has been officially rated higher than Sea The Stars at the equivalent stage last year following his sparkling victory in the Derby at Epsom.The British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) handi...

Workforce has been officially rated higher than Sea The Stars at the equivalent stage last year following his sparkling victory in the Derby at Epsom.The British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) handi...

Workforce has been officially rated higher than Sea The Stars at the equivalent stage last year following his sparkling victory in the Derby at Epsom.The British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) handi...