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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...

Form wise the key race for the Chelmsford Stakes is the wfa Warwick Stakes run on August 14 as most of the field for the Chelmsford ran in the race. After having watched the replay several times it...

Neptune Collonges earned himself the right to at least another supporting role in the Gold Cup after he returned to the winner's enclosure for the first time in nearly two years in the Argento Chas...

Holidaying Aussie jockey Michelle Payne rode a 9/1 winner at the Warwick meeting in England overnight. She scored a 3 lengths win aboard the Jane Chapple-Hyam trained Iasia in a 1400m Class 5 race....

With the ice finally broken for the season last Sunday, top French rider Olivier Doleuze pressed on with the good work by landing a double on Wednesday night at Happy Valley and collecting the Jock...

Magic Millions contender Amorino will have a Sydney lead-in to the $2 million race.Trainer Gerald Ryan has selected a Rosehill 1100m scamper on Saturday in preference to a Doomben start for the unb...

IN A historic moment for the Melbourne spring carnival yesterday, the first two horses from Macau to contend for the riches on offer arrived at Tullamarine Airport just after noon. But for the hors...