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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...

Not wanted on voyage...Tye Angland's got the heave-ho from Black Piranha. He's being replaced by Jim Cassidy for BP's upcoming autumn campaign. Trainer Con Karakatsanis says: 'We've got no hard fee...

TRAINER Peter Moody soaked his stable rider Luke Nolen in champagne as part of a dual celebration at Caulfield yesterday, reports the Sunday Age. It says: For not only did the trainer-jockey combin...

The John Moore-trained  Rewarding Hero  still has plenty to learn and, from a good draw, he can absorb a hike in the handicaps and salute as a banker in the final leg of the Triple Trio at Sha ...

Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford is hoping Racing Victoria Chief Handicapper Greg Carpenter will take note of Royal Empire's encouraging victory at Newbury. Such was the relish with which ...

MURWILLUMBAH Acceptances on Thursday 29th July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.24 HASTI SKIPS MAIDEN HANDICAP 1510 M...

In 1969, the late Rem Plante published his fine book Australian Horse Racing and Punters' Guide, in which he recommended a simple system of grading each horse's entire career based on the number o...