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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...

Bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse is firmly in his wife's corner as the trainer shoots for a record-equalling seventh Group One Doncaster on Saturday.Gai Waterhouse has the dominant favourite in More Joy...

Look out, Gai's warming up for the spring....Racing's queen Gai Waterhouse has old-timer Theseo in top nick and she's close to getting another string of top-liners ready to do battle. Theseo seems ...

ROBBIE Laing didn't hide his delight with the trial at Cranbourne today of Victoria Derby winner Polanksi. Polanski finished third, beaten three lengths behind Lankan Rupee in the second fastest ...

THE Melbourne Cup ''F-factor'' wasn't sighted yesterday as contenders for Australian racing's great race slogged it out in the bog at Caulfield and Gai Waterhouse finally claimed a Melbourne major,...

John Singleton made a good point when he asked what would racing be without Gai Waterhouse? The eccentric multi-millionire says: 'Gai is a genius - imagine what racing would be without her!' Person...

Add bookmakers to the endangered species list as racing turns from on-course sport to an off-course one, reports the Age/Sydney Morning Herald. It says: Punters have never been better looked after ...