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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...

from TARA MADGWICK at BreednetRock of Gibraltar (IRE) colt Golden Archer is regarded in the top echelon of juveniles in the powerful Peter Moody stable and he lived up to expectation with a dominan...

Just how good is Healy Stakes winner Hay List? He looks exceptional. Jockey Chris Munce reckons he's up with the best sprinters he's ridden. Hay List won the Healy by 5 lens. Munce says: 'I've been...

Exciting sprinter Sunburnt Land has been killed after being struck by lightning overnight near Melbourne.Owner David Moodie said the freak incident happened on his farm at Romsey as severe storms s...

The retirement of veteran stayer Zipping marks the end of an era for his legendary sire Danehill (USA), whose influence on Australian racing remains as powerful as ever, reports www.breednet.com.au...

PUNTERS are happy to forget the burden of New Zealand form and are expected to make Jimmy Choux a dominant favourite for Saturday's Group 1 Flinders Lane Rosehill Guineas (2000m), reports the Sydne...

Undefeated Australian champion sprinter Black Caviar has been relegated to the second-highest rated racehorse in the world by unbeaten English star Frankel.Frankel became the highest-rated miler in...