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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...

Oh dear, how will they get along without him? Tabcorp has announced its managing director of wagering Robert Nason will quit the company at the end of the year. Nason has been at the forefront of T...

Be warned...Weather forecasters are predicting rain - and lots of it - for Derby Day at Flemington on Saturday. The track is currently in the Dead range but that could change if the expected wet we...

Oops...AJC Derby hope Rock Classic has been beaten by a lesser-fancied stablemate in an 1800m track gallop at Randwick. RC's effort puzzled Bart Cummings, but he puts it down to the weight issue. H...

More nonsense has erupted over whip use and Corey Brown is the target this time...Latest reports say he is expected to be investigated for illegal use of the whip on Shocking at the finishing post ...

Well, we don't want to go through that again! Black Caviar just made it with her win in the Diamond Jubilee at Ascot. It was as nasty a finish as you'll ever see., Luke Nolen almost made a 'blunder...

The big spring push by owner Lloyd Williams is currently in tatters. That's the only conclusion to be drawn from Sat's racing at Flemington. Lloyd admits it was not a bright day for his stable -- f...