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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...

Ocean Park thrust New Zealand back into the Sportingbet Cox Plate spotlight with a historic win in the $3 million Group 1 event at Moonee Valley.The four-year-old became the first Kiwi to win Austr...

As the Black Caviar steam trains powers ahead to William Reid Stakes Night at the Valley on Friday 22 March, her three-quarter brother in-blood, Iconic, is flying under the radar, reports Racing Vi...

Apprentice Jason Maskiell drew level with Luke Nolen at the top of the Melbourne jockeys' premiership when he landed his fifth metropolitan winner in two days at Flemington.After riding his first c...

Apprentice Jason Maskiell drew level with Luke Nolen at the top of the Melbourne jockeys' premiership when he landed his fifth metropolitan winner in two days at Flemington.After riding his first c...

Luca Cumani’s great Emirates Melbourne Cup hope Mount Athos suffered his third straight defeat as he just failed to catch front-running Harris Tweed in the Listed March Stakes (2800m) at Goodwood...

Trainer Paul Messara's decision to bypass the Listed Recognition Stakes with Canberra Cup-bound Alverta has boosted rival Pat Duff's confidence of another feature success at Eagle Farm.Duff will sa...