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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...

NICELY bred colt  Monteux  suggested better wins to come after an impressive debut win in a maiden at Bendigo on Wednesday, prompting jockey Chad Schofield to predict a bright future for the 3Y...

More superb results from the PPD Club's ImpactPro ratings , which have now been going strong for 20 years. Wednesday's results were typical ImpactPro brilliance. Top return came from the 6th rac...

Almost 250 horses have been nominated for Saturday’s nine-card race at Flemington, with entries for the main event, the Group 3 Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200 metres), extended until 10am Tuesday. ...

TAB's wtrapup of Saturday's racing: RANDWICK RACE ONE Holler was a massive go in the first ($1.75) holding 75 percent of the money, however, it was Spill The Beans ($6-$4.80) that spoiled...