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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...

Newcastle will host a race meeting on Tuesday to compensate for lost meetings in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.The 10-race Newcastle meeting, announced by Racing NSW on Friday, has been organis...

Mark Zahra is the new jockey for superstar sprinter Scenic Blast when he tackles next month's Grp 1 Sprinters Stakes in Japan on Oct 4. SB's regular jockey Steven Arnold can't take the ride because...

Michael Rodd has been booked to replace the outed Stathi Katsidis on Queensland 2YO Military Rose in Sat's Reisling Stakes. He got the ride because of his Queensland connections. Before heading to ...

The racing career of The Opera House, believed to be Australia's only pure white racehorse, is in doubt because of injury.The Opera House, raced by a syndicate put together by adman John Singleton,...

Michael Rodd is NSW born and Victorian based but he has picked up the plum Reisling Stakes mount on Military Rose because he is a "Queenslander".Trainer Gillian Heinrich confirmed Rodd had beaten o...

Michael Rodd is NSW born and Victorian based but he has picked up the plum Reisling Stakes mount on Military Rose because he is a "Queenslander".Trainer Gillian Heinrich confirmed Rodd had beaten o...