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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...

Stephanie Nigge, who has been looking after French stayers Shahwardi and Americain for trainer Alain de Royer Dupre, says Shahwardi has thrived since his Herbert Power win, but she finds it difficu...

Apprentice Adam McCabe had to survive a protest on his winning mount Chosen To Fly before securing the third and final leg of the 2011 Asian Young Guns Challenge at Flemington.Apprentice Katelyn Ma...

Superstar young jockey  James McDonald  is hoping to take his Spring Racing Carnival form to Hong Kong early next month. The New Zealand-born, Sydney-based rider has been chosen as one of two Aus...

Racing NSW are confident prizemoney levels for The Championships are sustainable despite the NSW Government so far committing support for only one year, reports Racing Network.

áWet and cold at the creek they call Stony,I scanned the yard in search of a pony,Of noble head and intelligent eye;A steed that could gallop, perhaps even fly?With strong short cannons and good de...

Clarry Conners has opted to apply blinkers in an attempt to propel Bright Heart to a Golden Slipper berth via Saturday's Magic Night Stakes.Bright Heart has raced three times but is yet to put it a...