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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...

Premier trainer Chris Waller is on the verge of celebrating another century of Sydney winners in a season following a double at Canterbury on Wednesday.Victories to Writteninthestars and Disciple t...

Chris Waller reinforced his position among the Sydney training ranks with a stellar performance in 2008-09 and has maintained the momentum over the first weeks of the new season.As he had the previ...

Tim Clark is on the verge of achieving his season goal at Canterbury on Wednesday with more than two months to spare.The in-form jockey set himself the target of 50 city winners at the start of thi...

Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm has closed its Adelaide racing operation. Four full-time staff members have been retrenched. They were told of the shutdown at a meeting on Thursday. All horses wil...

The reduction of Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm operation continues with the news the embattled multi-millionaire is closing the doors on the enterprise's Victorian base. Tinkler Group chief execut...

It seems nothing can stop the astonishing winning run of trainer  Darren Weir , who is well on his way to breaking the Commonwealth record for winners in a season following another dominant weeken...