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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...

Press Statement has been installed as the one to beat in the Randwick Guineas, opening as the $1.80 favourite with TAB to win the Group One.   Montaigne ($7.00) and Stay With Me ($8.50) look...

TAB punters are confident Press Statement is the one to beat in the Caulfield Guineas, with the favourite firming from $2.50 into $2.30 on the back of a $10,000 bet. The colt has clearly been t...

Coolmore has confirmed it has bought a stake in Australia's best racehorse, dual Cox Plate winner So You Think.In a statement which effectively brings to an end So You Think's Australian career, Co...

Gun sprinter  Chautauqua  has firmed to go back-to-back in the TJ Smith Stakes on day one at The Championships at Royal Randwick on April 2.   The dual Group 1 winner went from $4.50 to $3.50 af...

Cox Plate winner Maldivian has been ruled out of the rest of the autumn carnival with a leg injury.However, trainer Mark Kavanagh said the injury to his suspensory ligament was at the minor end of ...

Cox Plate winner Maldivian has been ruled out of the rest of the autumn carnival with a leg injury.However, trainer Mark Kavanagh said the injury to his suspensory ligament was at the minor end of ...