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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...

Victorian star Lucky Secret heads a 15-runner field in Sat's Grp 2 Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot WA. The field, with barrier draw and jockeys, is:$500,000 GRP 2 WINTERBOTTOM STAKES (1200M)1 LUCKY SE...

Nash Rawiller is free to stick with Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes following Gai Waterhouse's decision to send Theseo for a spell.Rawiller won the Doncaster...

Nash Rawiller is free to stick with Doncaster Mile winner Rangirangdoo in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes following Gai Waterhouse's decision to send Theseo for a spell.Rawiller won the Doncaster...

Time away from the racetrack will be the making of Eye Of The Needle but trainer Keith Dryden sees no reason why the unfurnished galloper won't continue his winning run on Wednesday."Certainly he's...

Talented filly Palacio De Cristal will make the long trek from Sydney to Adelaide this week to try to salvage something from a luckless autumn carnival.The Grahame Begg-trained three-year-old runs ...

The evergreen and much travelled Ollie Vollie makes his homecoming to Warwick Farm on Saturday after a long absence.Formerly trained at Sydney's southwestern track by Guy Walter, Ollie Vollie was t...