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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 Tatts W.S Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 weight-for-age championship thoroughbred. Held annually at Moonee Valley Racing club in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest races of the Spring Rac...

SPRINTING revelation  Lankan Rupee  is a confirmed starter in the $2.5 million T.J. Smith Stakes, but Mick Price has not entirely locked in a route to the Randwick Group 1. Price said  Lankan R...

Dubai and Royal Ascot are off the agenda for giant sprinter Hay List, at least for this year.Trainer John McNair said he and the owners believed it was in Hay List's best interests to stay home for...

Racing Victoria’s International scout, Leigh Jordan, says  Gordon Lord Byron  is a chance to come to Melbourne and tackle  Lankan Rupee , reports Racing Network. A winner of the Group 1 George Ry...

Leading trainer Peter Moody says he is keen to eventually take star sprinter Black Caviar and other members of his team overseas, but not just yet."Certainly it's something we'd like to explore dow...

Benfica begins his march towards the Australian Guineas at Flemington on March 3 when he runs in Thursday's Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield.The Lonhro colt hasn't raced since he won the Group One T J ...