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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...

Speed Gifted has leapt to outright favoritism for the Caulfield Cup following his emphatic win in the 2400m AJC Metropolitan at Randwick. On the latest Betstar market, the import is at $5.50 (9/2),...

Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed will soon be back in action...She kicks off an autumn campaign at the Australia Day meeting at Caulfield next week. But connections are not expecting first-up fi...

A GENUINE challenger for super mare Black Caviar may have emerged when the Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed made a triumphant return to the track in the John Dillon Stakes at Caulfield yesterday...

LEE Freedman is confident he can revive the fortunes of last year's one-time Caulfield and Melbourne cups favourite Speed Gifted, believing the hot autumn weather was the horse's undoing when last ...

Can you tell a genuinely fast run from one that just looks fast? In this one, Gordon unpacks "par times" — the smoothed average time for each track, distance and going — so you can read the clock t...

SHE defied the international invasion in the spring to win the Caulfield Cup and Southern Speed's trainer Leon Macdonald said yesterday he was anticipating a similar result in the European-dominate...