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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...

It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...

Neither Bart nor Anthony Cummings will have a Golden Slipper runner next Saturday but both trainers will be well represented in the BMW, the country's richest 2400m weight-for-age race.Bart Cumming...

Neither Bart nor Anthony Cummings will have a Golden Slipper runner next Saturday but both trainers will be well represented in the BMW, the country's richest 2400m weight-for-age race.Bart Cumming...

An international Melbourne Cup assault that is shaping as the most successful ever goes up another notch over the next few days with the arrival in Australia of some of the world's best trainers an...

The famous red and black colours of Eduardo Cojuangco were to the fore again at Rosehill Saturday along with the lesser-known yellow and black of his brother Henry.Eduardo Cojuangco has raced many ...

British trainer David Simcock still considers the Group 1 Sportingbet Cox Plate (2040m) to be among Trade Storm's options after his encouraging Tuesday outing at Royal Ascot.