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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...

Rosehill trainer Tim Martin will try for his second Group One winner in the space of a week when Murtajill resumes in Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.Martin's courageous sprinter T...

Trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith had his faith in Orange County rewarded when Damien Oliver took out his sixth Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes on the grey at Caulfield.Drawn awkwardly in barrier 14, Orange Co...

Danny Nikolic surprisingly hasn't got a ride in Saturday's Underwood Stakes which he has won four times, but he'll do his best to win the other Group One feature on the Caulfield program, the Ruper...

Well known bloodstock agent James Bester has paid $1.2 million for a Redoute's Choice colt at the second session of the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.The colt was the only million dollar plus year...

Well known bloodstock agent James Bester has paid $1.2 million for a Redoute's Choice colt at the second session of the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.The colt was the only million dollar plus year...

Comeback mare J'adane has managed to sneak into the field for Saturday's Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield for what will be just her second appearance in a year.The five-year-old old ...