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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...

Star three-year-old Samantha Miss has a June date with the auctioneer but trainer Kris Lees hopes she may still have a future on the racetrack.Samantha Miss has just undergone stem cell surgery on ...

Jockey Hugh Bowman has not heard from Samantha Miss' trainer Kris Lees this week and that's the way he likes it.The star filly will become the first horse since Angst in 1993 to win all four legs o...

Al's Magic Miss will be out to maintain an unbeaten first-up record on Saturday in a pipe-opener to an early autumn carnival stakes mission.The David Payne-trained filly is unbeaten in two first-up...

Newcastle trainer Kris Lees and Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman landed their first Melbourne Group One wins when star filly Samantha Miss ran away with the VRC Oaks at Flemington.The beautifully-bred dau...

It's likely that Qld Oaks winner Scarlett Lady will not take on the males in the Qld Derby. Trainer Graeme Rogerson reckons the filly is a 'freak' but he and owner Max Whitby are not keen on pushin...

Evergreen mare Miss Badoura looks set for another successful campaign and will try to make it back-to-back wins at Caulfield on Saturday.The eight-year-old, by 1990 Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Ru...