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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...

Gai Waterhouse will unleash two of her Golden Slipper big guns at Warwick Farm on Saturday as the march towards the $3.5 million showpiece heats up.Early Slipper favourite Raceway will tackle the L...

Gai Waterhouse is striving for more than a place alongside her father, Tommy Smith, on the Sportingbet Blue Diamond honour roll at Caulfield this Saturday, reports Racing Victoria. The Hall of Fa...

In this article, regular contributor Philip Roy takes a look at the best autumn carnival prospects from some of the leading stables in Sydney and Melbourne, and tries to pinpoint those horses that...

Magic Millions winner Karuta Queen is ready to lead her rivals a merry chase in Saturday's Group Three San Domenico Stakes at RosehillTrainer Neville Layt says the speedy filly is "right on the bal...