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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...

Trainer Greg Eurell has lost his talented galloper Mic Mac. He's been transferred to Paul Messara at Scone. Mic Mac ran 5th to Hot Danish at Randwick last sat but his departure from the Eurell sta...

As if it isn't hard enough being a trainer...Paul Messara, who has odds-on fav Beneteau in Sat's Skyline Stakes, has been copping death threats from a disgruntled punter. He says: 'I have had a blo...

Just days after celebrating his first victory in Melbourne with new Blue Diamond favourite Beneteau, trainer Paul Messara will turn his attention to Sydney.Beneteau rocketed to the top of markets f...

Just days after celebrating his first victory in Melbourne with new Blue Diamond favourite Beneteau, trainer Paul Messara will turn his attention to Sydney.Beneteau rocketed to the top of markets f...

Just days after celebrating his first victory in Melbourne with new Blue Diamond favourite Beneteau, trainer Paul Messara will turn his attention to Sydney.Beneteau rocketed to the top of markets f...

Paul Messara is expanding his training operations with plans to open a satellite stable under the care of trainer Eden Petrie at Caloundra.Petrie's star Group One-winning sprinter Albert The Fat wi...