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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 AJC Australian Oaks was billed as a virtual match race between glamour fillies Faint Perfume and Valdemoro but in the end the Group One Classic belonged to the Gai Waterhouse-trained Once Were ...

Peter Robl rode his first Group One winner for the high-profile Patinack Farm operation when Onemorenomore upset his more-fancied rivals in the Champagne Stakes at Randwick.The Red Ransom colt enjo...

A capacity field of 20 will line-up in Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide. When the field was finalised today, the barrier draw threw up some serious ‘nastie...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...

Two-year-old King Of Love upstaged his more fancied rivals when he produced a slashing performance on the heavy going to score impressively at Canterbury on Wednesday.The Rod Craig-trained gelding ...