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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...

Racing Victoria can confirm that it has been formally advised that the Office of Public Prosecutions will not be laying any charges following a Victoria Police investigation into allegations of ...

What's going on? Is there going to be a hike in the tax racing pays to the State Govt in Victoria? A rise in the tax on a bet? Questions like this are being raised after reports that Victoria Racin...

The squeeze is on Saturday provincial meetings in Victoria...There are reports Racing Victoria has discussed getting rid of them. No-one is actually denying the reports. Racing Victoria chief execu...

Pakenham off...Heavy rain has forced Racing Victoria to abandon Tuesday's Pakenham meeting. Rain fell across Victoria on Monday. Some areas copped more than 50mm. Stewards say they had no option bu...

Well, don't say I didn't warn you...Jumps racing in Victoria is on its last legs. The drummed-up 'test' period, devised to ensure its survival (ho hum), is unravelling by the day. And now the news ...

Racing Victoria Chief Executive Rob Hines has issued the following statement regarding RV's investigation into allegations that Damien Oliver wagered on another horse in a race in which he was comp...