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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 Doomben Cup and not the Queensland Oaks is looming as the Group One winter target for Miss Darcey after she lines up in the Gold Coast Bracelet.Trainer Anthony Cummings believes Miss Darcey has...

Trainer Grahame Begg has given an insight into the autumn potential of lightly-raced filly Palacio De Cristal by naming Australia's only Group One 2400-metre weight-for-age race as a serious target...

Trainer Grahame Begg has given an insight into the autumn potential of lightly-raced filly Palacio De Cristal by naming Australia's only Group One 2400-metre weight-for-age race as a serious target...

Trainer Grahame Begg expects All Silent to confirm his Doncaster favouritism when he begins his campaign in Saturday's Group Three Liverpool City Cup.Apprentice Peter Wells, who rode All Silent to ...

Trainer Grahame Begg expects All Silent to confirm his Doncaster favouritism when he begins his campaign in Saturday's Group Three Liverpool City Cup.Apprentice Peter Wells, who rode All Silent to ...

If things had gone smoothly for Palacio De Cristal she would have been racing in the VRC Oaks but trainer Grahame Begg was just as happy to see her win a support race on the Flemington program.Afte...