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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...

When we look at form, what are we really looking for? Confirmation of something we already have in mind? Are we looking for similar confirmation for what the tipsters have chosen, or what the book...

The Western Australian Turf Club have poured plenty of money into their Group 1 races of late, and though they haven't managed to attract any genuine 'A graders' from the eastern states this time a...

Champion trainer  Darren Weir  holds all the aces in the Adelaide Cup after  Real Love  and  Signoff  won the key lead-up races on Saturday. Signoff is now favourite for the $400,000 Group 2 afte...

Outsider Man Of Class has given Irish jockey Tom Ryan his first Australian success in the Grand National Steeplechase at Sandown.Ryan, 27, who visited Australia with the Irish jumps team in 2005, r...

THE revival of David Hayes' stable is set to continue in the next two weeks as the trainer attempts to qualify a swag of smart two-year-olds for the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes and rolls out the...

The Clinton McDonald-trained Second Effort maintained his unbeaten record on wet tracks when he won the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool, edging out comeback mare Wealth Princess.The five-yea...