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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...

Warrnambool trainer Jarrod McLean is hopeful veteran sprinter Juggle The Books can extend the run of longshots when he contests his second Group Three Standish Handicap.McLean said the eight-year-o...

Warrnambool trainer Jarrod McLean is hopeful veteran sprinter Juggle The Books can extend the run of longshots when he contests his second Group Three Standish Handicap.McLean said the eight-year-o...

Jockey Craig Newitt has convinced connections of exciting sprinter Esprit De Bullet to have a crack at the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington.Newitt is the regular rider of the lightly-rac...

TAB Sportsbet punters quickly snapped up the early $8.50 offered on Royal Ida in Friday's $200,000 Grp 3 1200m Standish Handicap at Flemington. TAB Sportsbet spokesman Glenn Munsie says: 'The first...

Classy six-year-old sprinter Catapulted got within half a second of the course record to win the Group Three Standish Handicap at Flemington.The Mark Kavanagh-trained chestnut was explosive up the ...

Decircles followed in the footsteps of stablemate Adamantium with victory at Flemington on Saturday and he will given the chance to further emulate his fellow Danny O’Brien-trained gelding on New...