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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...

THE instincts of trainer Peter Gelagotis were proved correct at Flemington on Tuesday when his lightly raced stayer Module won the $150,000 Bagot Handicap, reports The Age. Moe-based Gelagotis, who...

Torio's Quest proved trainer Brett Partelle's high opinion of him was spot-on when he scored a big win in the $250,000 Queensland Guineas at Eagle Farm.Partelle rated Torio's Quest as a Group One w...

Stable jockey Darren Beadman has faced tough choices and some that have gone the wrong way ever since he joined the John Moore yard, and Admiration could add to the list of the painful ones in the ...

So Anyway sent her residual value soaring and enhanced one of the finest families of the Australian Studbook when she scored a fighting win in the listed Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Scone.Benefit...

That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...

SOMETHING SHORT AND SWEETToday, November 7, Vigor races over a mile (OK then, 1600 metres). He was balloted out of the Melbourne Cup, and the two hopeless types that were allowed in (we were told t...