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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...

Disturbing news from the US overnight relating to the pending closure of the famous Hollywood Park racetrack

Curlin became the first North American thoroughbred to surpass the $US10 million ($A11.99 million) prizemoney barrier with a come-from-behind victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.The reigning US Hor...

Here They Come, But Fewer of Them.Let's start with a warning: hold onto your wallets!The Melbourne Cup has closed its noms with 230 received, down from 297 last year.The Caulfield Cup has 227, from...

Patinack Farm's stable jockey Peter Robl switched to another powerful camp in the opening race at Rosehill to ride for Darley trainer Peter Snowden, and the popular jockey did the maroon and white ...

West Australian trainer Dan Morton may have had his confidence dented when Bliss Street was beaten last start but he remains optimistic about the filly's chances in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfiel...

Akeed Mofeed, the horse Racing NSW has been chasing to compete in The Championships this autumn, is rapidly stamping himself the best horse in Hong Kong. English trainer Richard Gibson predicted ...