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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...

The Victorian racing industry is set to receive a massive boost to its broadcast, data and media capabilities as well as its integrity services after a 10-year deal was signed with Telstra to prov...

Trainer Mike Moroney is hoping to feed off a recent trend and score an upset with lightly-raced three-year-old African Pulse in the Oakleigh Plate.Seven of the last 10 winners of the Group One 1100...

The NSW government is turning its back on greyhound racing after making "secret deals" with the thoroughbred code, an industry figure says.Greyhound Racing NSW chairman Percy Allan said legislation...

At the moment Australian racing should be pretty pleased with itself. Booming carnivals, record prizemoney and TAB turnover reflect a healthy portrait of a flourishing industry. One aspect ?that...

Bookmakers have always been synonymous with horse racing. They are as old as the industry itself. Their importance to the horse racing product of this country cannot be understated. In monetary ...