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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...

From HK RACING POSTwww.racing.scmp.comHong Kong top liners will be spread far and wide at the end of next month with three runners in Dubai and Green Birdie confirmed to return to Japan with some u...

The three International Trial races will be thrown open to invited overseas runners looking for a suitable lead-up run into the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races this year, reports the H...

International glory bid...Racehorse of the Year Scenic Blast is still in England being prepared for a big Japanese World Series sprint in October. He's due to arrive in Japan in the next few weeks ...

From NZ Thoroughbred NewsThe remedial re-shoeing of the tough front-running galloper Egyptian Ra (NZ) (Woodborough) could prove just the ticket needed in the HK-2 The Cathay Pacific International M...

It is hardly surprising that Victoria's chief handicapper should declare himself a staunch supporter of Australian sprinter Apache Cat in Sunday's $HK12 million Hong Kong Sprint.But it may be the e...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has issued four invitations for the Cathay Pacific International Cup, Sprint and Mile Trials to take place on 15 and 22 November.The invitees are:Cathay Pacific Internatio...