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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...

Talented filly Ever The Same overcome some anxious moments in the straight to dive through for a thrilling win in Friday's Listed PJ Bell Stakes at Canterbury.The three-year-old filly formed part o...

MURRAY Baker sounded an ominous warning to his pending Championship rivals when he declared It’s A Dundeel has “ever been better”. Baker said It’s A Dundeel is completely over the foot issue that...

M anaging part owner Neil Werrett has revealed  that champion mare Black Caviar has taken to pregnancy the same way she took to her racing career, reports Racing Victora.

A preparation ago, Rain Affair had the talent but didn't have the looks.Now he is the complete package.Well, almost."The best thing about this horse is he's going to keep improving and I don't just...

Anthony Cummings is prepared to run lightly-raced filly Ever The Same at Group One weight-for-age level if it means avoiding a clash with unbeaten star Atlantic Jewel.Cummings has nominated Ever Th...

Trainer Jake Stephens says Alcopop is "better than ever" as he attempts to go one better than in last year's Group One Caulfield Stakes.The seven-year-old has thrilled Stephens with his form this c...