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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...

Natalie Rasmussen watched in horror as her dream of training her first thoroughbred winner ended in tragedy at Doomben.Rasmussen, the queen of harness racing, was in Sydney preparing her four-time ...

Fans of Zenyatta turned out to bid the mare farewell on Sunday, their affection undimmed by her defeat the previous day in the Breeders' Cup Classic.Trainer John Shirreffs took down the barricades ...

Multiple Group One winner El Segundo will target the Group One George Ryder Stakes after a mystifying first-up performance in the Newmarket Handicap earlier this month.Trainer Colin Little said he ...

Not surprisingly, Australian Racing Board's new CEO Peter McGauran has come out and blasted the ABC's Four Corners program on alleged race-fixing and money laundering. He reckons the program's scre...

Lucas Cranach's part-owner Luke Murrell says the stayer's once troublesome hoof is now a "non-issue and hasn't caused one single minute of pain or lameness." And he's told Betfair that he regards L...

Despite his ordinary run in the Rosehill Guineas, Gold Coast star Shoot Out will tackle the AJC Derby 2400m at Randwick on Sat week. Trainer John Wallace is willing to forgive Shoot Out's defeat at...