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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...

The unbeaten Peter Snowden-trained gelding Pied A Terre will use his first clash with older horses at Moonee Valley as a springboard to major three-year-old races next year.The son of Ad Valorem is...

Three-year-old Pied A Terre will join an elite group of champions if he can win the Group Two Blamey Stakes at Flemington.Cox Plate-winning filly Surround was the last three-year-old Blamey winner ...

HE MIGHT not yet have the aura of celebrated stablemates, but unbeaten Darley three-year-old Pied A Terre is likely to take another step up in class when he takes on the older horses in the Chester...

Peter and Paul Snowden are still tossing up what to do with their classy newcomer Pied A Terre, who notched his second big win at Flemington. Paul says Pied A Terre does everything so easily that i...

Pied A Terre is a bit of a find, and there's every reason to think he'll be a classics contender in 2012. Not surprisingly, the Darley mob are hoping he'll measure up to the Australian Guineas - an...

Lightly-raced three-year-old Pied A Terre is unlikely to clash with celebrated stablemate Helmet in the Australian Guineas despite winning the Group Two Autumn Stakes at Caulfield.Ridden by Mark Za...