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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...

GIRLS' DAY OUTThere are so many top races this weekend. Most of them have the fillies and mares to the fore.Of course the Todman Stakes is an exception, but otherwise there'll be female stars in th...

TAB Sportsbet has Fixed Odds markets now open on all 6 races from Day 1 of Royal Ascot tonight. Race 1: Special Frankel 'Out' market tonightBULLET TRAIN 51.00 EXCELEBRATION 1.75 INDOMITO 34.00 PREM...

Anger mounts...Trainers will demand the VRC employ security staff to protect horses at future music festivals planned for Flemington in the wake of the Australia Day break-ins. A Flemington-based t...

It's D-Day for Black Caviar...The mighty mare emerges from Werribee quarantine and will undergo a battery of tests to determine if she will continue to race. Black Caviar copped injuries winning in...

Moody blues! Peter Moody continues to hand out some tongue-in-cheek chat to the UK racing press as D-Day nears for Black Caviar's Royal Ascot assignment. PM says UK superhorse Frankel had never bee...

Classy mare Cats Whisker rounded out a successful day for Mark Kavanagh when she scored a thrilling win in the Group Three Cockram Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.The win was the second of the day ...