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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...

Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente will headline some of the biggest names in Australian racing at Friday’s Randwick trials, reports Racing Network. He will trial in the first heat, tackling stable-ma...

Half of Tommy Berry's winners in an impressive first stint have come in trophy races of various levels, and the Australian jockey has the horse to do it again in the Cricket Club Valley Stak...

The name Waterhouse has been synonymous with Australian horseracing since 1898 when a 21-year-old named Charles Waterhouse started his bookmaking career and began a bookmaking dynasty which contin...