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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...

Melbourne Racing Club track manager Jason Kerr says a slow rating is likely for Sat's Grp 2 Memsie Stakes meeting at Caulfield. There's been 15.5mm of rain on the circuit in the past week, includin...

Samaready remains a dominant favourite for Saturday's Blue Diamond Stakes after coming up with barrier eight at Tuesday's draw.The Mick Price-trained filly is among a full field of 16 plus four eme...

Stathi Katsidis says Shoot Out saw the backs of more horses than he would have liked on Saturday and he is already looking forward to the next clash with Memsie winner So You Think."From where I ha...

Gai Waterhouse's impressive import Fiorente will miss the Sydney spring carnival and is expected to start his spring campaign in the Group I Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on August 31.  Las...

The races are getting harder but Jason Clifford refuses to shy away from the challenge with underrated galloper Prince Obama.The five-year-old has always impressed the Geelong trainer and when he t...

A capacity field of 20 will line-up in Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide. When the field was finalised today, the barrier draw threw up some serious ‘nastie...