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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...

TVN has expressed deep disappointment in Sky Racing’s (Tabcorp) decision to restrict punters from receiving racing coverage in non-Foxtel Pubs and Clubs. Sky’s rejection leaves commercial venues w...

A deeply disappointed Zac Purton has bowed to medical advice and abandoned efforts to ride at the first meeting of the new season after a scan of the jockey's damaged right ankle has revealed a sm...

Deacon Blues, in the frame to provide Royal Ascot opposition for Black Caviar, will miss the 2012 racing season because of injury.Trainer James Fanshawe said Deacon Blues, potentially the best spri...

HORSE of the year Typhoon Tracy is primed to end the longest losing sequence of her career when she returns in Friday night's group 2 Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley, reports The Age. It says: Th...

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...

Based on the TAB Fixed Odds, using Thursday nights prices, there are 15 horses priced at 4/1 ($5.00) or less set to race at Randwick and quite a few of them present punters with problems. In Race 1...