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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...

Hayden Haitana, the trainer at the centre of the infamous Fine Cotton ring-in, may soon be allowed back on a racecourse. The Queensland Sunday Mail exclusively reported today that the Queensland ...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver said he and his fellow jockeys are prepared to strike during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival which could cost the racing industry millions of dollars.Oliver says ...

Champion jockey Damien Oliver said he and his fellow jockeys are prepared to strike during the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival which could cost the racing industry millions of dollars.Oliver says ...

Champion hoop Damien Oliver claimed his first win of the 2014/15 season at Geelong on Tuesday, after his racing return was delayed following minor surgery. Oliver booted home the $2.50 favourite,...

Star sprinter Hay List is in doubt for the Expressway Stakes after jarring up during an exhibition gallop at Rosehill on Saturday.Hay List galloped with the David Payne trained Centennial Park wit...

Jockey Daniel Ganderton was suspended for a month at Warwick Farm on Friday for a "dishonest action" and also fined $500 for providing a false statement to stewards.The suspension stemmed from Gand...