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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...

David Hayes  doesn’t need to be represented in the  W.S. Cox Plate  to get excited about the biggest race run at Moonee Valley each year, reports racing.com. It helps when he does, like this yea...

Jockey  Craig Williams  travelled with success at the weekend, and there is more travel to come for the in-form Victorian hoop. The four-time Scobie Breasley Medal winner earned his 36th Group 1 ...

Craig Williams says he will have a little control on where Niconero will be in the run as he attempts to become only the seventh multiple winner of the time-honoured Group One Futurity Stakes at Ca...

Craig Williams says he will have a little control on where Niconero will be in the run as he attempts to become only the seventh multiple winner of the time-honoured Group One Futurity Stakes at Ca...

Trainer Chris Waller couldn't have scripted a better way to celebrate his 37th birthday than picking up two feature wins at Warwick Farm on Saturday including the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes w...

Betting the exotics is something 99 out of 100 punters do every raceday. Quinellas, trifectas and, in some areas, exactas are increasingly popular. They are just as popular in other countries. Am...