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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...

The racecallers' racecaller Des Hoysted, who died in a Sydney nursing home on Thursday night aged 86, is remembered as ''a legend'' of his craft. Hoysted's racecalling colleagues praised his abilit...

Jockey Kerrin McEvoy says Sepoy is giving him a "similar feel" to his rampaging autumn campaign which snared him the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper Stakes double.McEvoy won a jumpout on the colt a...

SENIOR executives at racing radio station Sport 927 were yesterday stunned by the decision of its major advertiser, Tabcorp, to stop its agents and outlets using the station's broadcasts, reports P...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn is excited about resuming his career after a long absence due to a disqualification over a betting scandal and a broken leg.Shinn will have his first ride b...

Sepoy's amazing improvement in the last two weeks has convinced trainer Peter Snowden to attempt a weight-carrying record with the Dubai-bound three-year-old in the Oakleigh Plate.Snowden said the ...

RACING radio station Sport 927 has drastically revamped its two major morning timeslots and in the process dumped two of the network's key personalities, reports The Age.It says: The station yester...