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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...

Another Melbourne Cup campaign is in doubt for the mighty Godolphin stable as the casualty list for next week's big race grew longer with an injury to the English stayer All The Good.Unless his con...

The Group 3 JRA Cup, run over 2040m this Friday night, is not the best race on the night but there is no doubt tthe result will either make orbreak the hearts of some of the respective connections....

FIRST SHOCK! Jockeys at Ballarat refused to ride after learning the Australian Racing Board had refused to make any changes to those crazy new whip rules. Industrial action is likely to spread like...

WARWICK FARM Acceptances on Friday 30th July, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 5m 1000m to WP, True remainder--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01.08 GLEN A...

Happy New Year!Not too many features for you, Just a handful I believe we might keep thinking about for 2010.1. The whip.Well, my information is that most horses won't race at their ultimate speed ...

Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy has decided to immediately retire Toorak Toff after confirmation the outstanding colt was suffering from a wind infirmity.Hore-Lacy, a part-owner of Toorak Toff, said he wasn...