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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...

There were only three races run at Ballarat on Sunday before the meeting was abandoned, but Peter Moody still managed to produce a runaway juvenile winner that caught the eye, reports www.breednet....

My Bentley gave high profile owners Simon O'Donnell and Terry Henderson something to smile about after a frustrating spring when he took out Sunday's Ballarat Cup.Former international cricketer O'D...

Peter Moody has flagged the possibility of unbeaten three-year-old filly Black Caviar taking on the weight-for-age sprinters in the Manikato Stakes.Moody, who is excited about preparing what he des...

An autumn stakes campaign is the ambition for progressive stayer Shezaten who again steps up in class at Sandown.Trainer John Sadler is hoping the four-year-old can improve off the back her past tw...

Trainer Mick Kent and jockey Brad Rawiller combined to win their second consecutive Ballarat Cup on Sunday when Domesky overhauled Rothera to take the country Victorian feature.Kent and Rawiller wo...

The likelihood of a firm track threatens to derail the chances of past winners Sentire and Daka's Gem in the Ballarat Cup.Both stayers are noted wet trackers and their hopes are tempered with the m...