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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...

Big upheaval underway in Queensland racinfg following Labor's exit from government...The Brisbane Courier-Mail reports that the LNP Government has placed an 'expenditure cap of $20,000' on Racing Q...

More upheaval...Racing Queensland is set to be disbanded if, as widely predicted, the Queensland Liberals/Nationals are successful in Saturday's state election. The LNP deputy opposition leader Tim...

THREE race series initiatives spread across Queensland will form an important plank in the State Government's plan to rejuvenate country racing, reports Bart Sinclair in the Courier-Mail in Brisban...

Few seasons promise the variety and change that lies ahead in the 2013-14 term in so many areas of the booming game.  

Eastern Promise  won't go much closer to falling in a race than he did first-up last month, but the sprinter gets an ideal set-up to turn that around in the Fakei Cup (1,000m) at Happy Valley to...

Racing Victoria (RV) General Manager - Integrity, Dayle Brown, has strongly denied allegations made in yesterday's Sunday Herald Sun newspaper regarding widespread Erythropoietin (EPO) use within t...