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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...

From Racing Post UKFRANKIE DETTORI got the fractions spot on aboard Holberg, who led from the start before battling gamely to see off the late challenge of 33-1 outsider Pink Symphony by a short-he...

International star Takeover Target outlasted Australia's reigning champion sprinter Apache Cat after a thrilling home straight duel to win the Group Two Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.Nine-year-old T...

A jockey who suffered the most-crushing loss of his career in the same race a year ago, a trainer with whom he had won many major races in years past, and a horse who had been long forgotten since ...

From NEIL FRANKLYNFASHION ROCKS4m : L Noble : Matamata11 starts : 2 wins : 5 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Fast/GoodUseful sprinter-miler who's likely to move on...

Plans to run top class Fastnet Rock 3yo Foxwedge at Royal Ascot next month in the Grp 1 King's Stand Stakes have been abandoned with Newgate Farm confirming the valuable colt is to be retired immed...

Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington's surprise decision to start Femina Fashion at Doomben won't stand in the way of a possible Sydney trip next week for the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick.W...