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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...

Dermot Weld's already in narky mood in time for spring...His Cup raider Galileo's Choice has been hit by travel sickness following his marathon journey to Australia Galileo's Choice touched down in...

Peter Moody's star stayer Brambles is OUT for the spring after failing to fully recover from travel sickness.Will a French stayer slip right into Cups contention in Adelaide on Saturday? Could be. ...

CHANNEL 9 and Moonee Valley are embroiled in a Cox Plate telecast tug of war, after the network backed a travel show as a better ratings bet than Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, reports t...

Beleaguered trainer Darryl Hansen is prepared to do more travelling with Townsville Cup winner Hussonator if the controversial mare is successful at Doomben.Hussonator was disqualified from her Mac...

The prospect of a good track at Randwick on Saturday has trainer Ron Maund believing Ice Chariot can break his long winning drought in the Group Two Chairman's Handicap.So far the Group One winning...

From HK Racing Post (www.racing.scmp.com)Europe's volcanic travel turmoil threatens to spill over to the Audemars Piguet QE II Cup meeting at Sha Tin next Sunday, with two horses stranded and the g...