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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...

Opie Bosson is returning from Singapore to ride high-class New Zealand mare Shez Sinsational in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast on Saturday.Trainer Allan Sharrock confirmed Bosson...

Allan Sharrock believes Opie Bosson will need to produce a faultless ride on Hollindale Stakes winner Shez Sinsational to give the New Zealand trainer his first Australian Group One victory in the ...

Cox Plate favourite Princess Coup will leave New Zealand on Wednesday bound for Melbourne after pleasing trainer Mark Walker with a solid gallop at Tauranga racecourse.Princess Coup, who is at $3.5...

Opie Bosson had the benefit of four-time Cox Plate-winning rider Brent Thomson's expertise at Moonee Valley ahead of perhaps the most important ride of his career on equal favourite Princess Coup i...

The plan was always to head to Australia but now it is a case of deciding between Sydney and Brisbane after the win by Indikator in the Rotorua Cup.Indikator confirmed he had come back better than ...

The plan was always to head to Australia but now it is a case of deciding between Sydney and Brisbane after the win by Indikator in the Rotorua Cup.Indikator confirmed he had come back better than ...