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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...

Jostling for positions in the Melbourne Cup took on a new twist on Thursday with three contenders undergoing veterinary checks and another two needing to prove themselves before the final field is ...

The only flaw Lee Freedman can find in Oaks favourite Samantha Miss is that Kris Lees trains her and he doesn't.Freedman has two runners in Thursday's Classic, Estee and Miss Scarlatti, but admits ...

Rebel Raider is primed for victory in the South Australian Derby with his recent Sydney failures still a mystery to trainer Leon Macdonald.The Victoria Derby winner failed to show anything of the f...

All set to boom...Werribee Racing Club has more than 320 entries for the club's first meeting in more than three years on Saturday. Racing Victoria shut down the Werribee track in 2007 after jockey...

Newcastle trainer Kris Lees says Turnbull Stakes winner and Caulfield Cup place-getter  Lucia Valentina  is about to step-up her training for the autumn, reports Racing Network. “She’s doing her ...

THE Melbourne Cup has been rated the best staying race in the world for the past two years, so the trends established by the great race in that time are the benchmark for distance racing. In short,...