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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...

IN THE eyes of his trainer, Robert Smerdon, champion jumper Black And Bent yesterday surpassed the standing of his famous half-brother, Some Are Bent, with yet another dominant hurdle victory at Wa...

FEARLESS jumper Black And Bent has achieved many firsts during his remarkable career, both on the flat and over hurdles, but in South Australia tomorrow he could eclipse a record that has stood for...

A start for Some Are Bent in Saturday's The Australian Hurdle hinges on him being able to qualify in a hurdle trial at Stony Creek on Wednesday.The Stony Creek jumps trials were washed out on Frida...

A start for Some Are Bent in Saturday's The Australian Hurdle hinges on him being able to qualify in a hurdle trial at Stony Creek on Wednesday.The Stony Creek jumps trials were washed out on Frida...