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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...

How would you like to watch the tote all day and bet for a place AND make a small amount of profit? This is the nub of the Dr Z Factor, an approach to betting created by a couple of American profe...

An initial autopsy has revealed that Japanese stayer Admire Rakti died from a heart attack after the Melbourne Cup, reports the ABC. Dr Chris Whitton, an equine veterinarian at the University of ...

Cash flow...Gerry Harvey (you know him, the bloke who's doing it tough in retail) has bought out John Singleton's share of the Magic Millions sales company. Battler Gerry says: 'My family and I agr...

In my younger days, I once worked on a building site in England. I was doing the time-honoured 'Aussie boy goes back to the Old Dart' routine (and I had the time of my life). Anyway, the foreman s...

MOST key groups involved in racing yesterday scoffed at new research from two University of Sydney veterinarians that claims whipping racehorses is pointless and does not make a difference to the o...

Consistent galloper Philda is a confirmed runner in Saturday's Winter Championship Final after trainer Mick Kent had a change of mind.Kent didn't run the six-year-old in any of the series heats but...