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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...

ROSEHILL   RACE ONE Favourite backers had little to concern themselves about after Zumbelina scored handsomely. Although drifting from $1.50 out to $1.75 come start time, she still held 66...

While the main attention may have been at the MCG on Saturday, it gave seven European horses the opportunity to slip into a rainy and blustery Melbourne for their tilt at the Spring Racing Carniv...

Flying filly Solar Charged has regained her place at the top of Golden Slipper markets with a dominant display in the Kindergarten Stakes at Warwick Farm.Sent out the $1.80 favourite, Solar Charged...

Flying filly Solar Charged has regained her place at the top of Golden Slipper markets with a dominant display in the Kindergarten Stakes at Warwick Farm.Sent out the $1.80 favourite, Solar Charged...

New Zealand trainer John Sargent has no regrets about bringing Red Ruler to Melbourne earlier than last year and says he is ready to make his mark in Saturday's Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.The fi...

New Zealand trainer John Sargent has no regrets about bringing Red Ruler to Melbourne earlier than last year and says he is ready to make his mark in Saturday's Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.The fi...