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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...

Trainer Mathew Ellerton believes he may have cost exciting filly Crystal Lily last week's Blue Diamond Stakes.Ellerton said that in hindsight the Stratum filly probably should have run in the filli...

Trainer Mathew Ellerton believes he may have cost exciting filly Crystal Lily last week's Blue Diamond Stakes.Ellerton said that in hindsight the Stratum filly probably should have run in the filli...

It's understandable that Mark Kavanagh is playing down his chances with December Draw in Saturday's $2.5 million BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m).The big-race specialist has saddled up the event's two sho...

JOHN Sadler's understandable enthusiasm at winning his first group 1 race since returning to training earlier this year was yesterday tempered by an unkind barrier draw for his filly Heidilicious i...

International star Sea Moon has pulled up sore after his Australian debut in Saturday's Makybe Diva at Flemington. Owner Lloyd Williams said it would be another week before any decision was made ...

When Peter Moody decided to almost halve the size of his racing team he never envisaged he would be Melbourne's leading trainer two years later.Moody has challenged the system with his hands-on app...