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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...

A decision on Sydney's autumn carnival dates for the next three years has still not been reached, with Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys expecting to have the matter finalised in the next f...

A decision on whether spring carnival meetings can be held at Randwick will not be made until Wednesday at the earliest.The Australian Turf Club (ATC) says testing of the QEII stand following the d...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has accused Racing NSW of disrespect over its decision to grant Chris Munce a licence to ride.Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chief executive of the HKJC, said Racing...

THE Australian Jumping Racing Association yesterday delivered an unprecedented attack on the chairman and chief executive of Racing Victoria Limited and vowed to fight yesterday's ruling to termina...

Sensible...Racing Victoria has accepted the decision of the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board and will not appeal the verdict handed down in the Danny Nikolic case. RVL general manager of integ...

Racing Victoria (RV) has announced the Swan Hill race meeting on Monday has been abandoned due to extreme hot weather conditions.  The welfare of both horses and human participants is of the high...