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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...

Bart Cummings may have a fresh Epsom hope with comeback horse Empire's Choice. The Queensland Derby winner produced a barnstorming effort for 3rd to More Joyous at only his second run from a 14-mon...

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 ...

Godolphin struck in the September Stakes at Kempton late on Saturday evening, but it was Prince Bishop who eclipsed their leading Emirates Melbourne Cup contender Royal Empire in a thrilling clim...

By studying the official handicappers ratings for each runner you will have every chance of saving yourself the problem of backing horses on the limit weight that are outclassed. In the 2000m open ...

By studying the official handicappers ratings for each runner you will have every chance of saving yourself the problem of backing horses on the limit weight that are outclassed. In the 2000m open ...

In less than a year, Peter Robl has gone from being a celebrated country jockey to being confirmed as the number one rider for Nathan Tinkler's burgeoning thoroughbred empire, Patinack Farm.Since h...