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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...

Who's in favor of the AJC-STC merger? Well, big owner Nathan Tinkler is one. NT, who has thrown millions into racing in recent times, reckons the controversial Ernst & Young report highlights flaws...

Japan-bound Craig Williams has signed off a winner piloting the Paul Messara-trained Mahisara to victory in the Grp 3 Variety - The Children Charity Sandown Stakes (1500m). Williams, who leaves for...

Who's in trouble? Whobe, that's who...Mark Kavanagh admits he's worried about the injuries sustained by his stable star Whobegotyou in last Sat's Stradbroke. Whobe was badly cut when unplaced in th...

TREAD WARILY!Courtesy of the Melbourne Racing Club, I'll be at Caulfield this weekend, with my good pal Roman Koz (who's over there opposite me, on the front page).I wish I could say that the weath...

Self-inflicted crisis...Racing Victoria, now fiddling with a crisis it created out of nothing, has decided to give steeplechasing another 12 months of shaky life. But if there are too many deaths i...

From NEIL FRANKLYNRANDALL3g : Trainer : Gareth McRae4 starts : 2 wins : 1 placeWin distance range : 1400mTrack conditions won on : Good : DeadChestnut son of Howbaddouwantit who's making a name for...