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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 plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

David Payne produced a training masterstroke to win the Light Fingers Stakes last year, but he's not as confident of a repeat performance on Saturday.Payne will start Prerequisite in the Light Fing...

David Payne produced a training masterstroke to win the Light Fingers Stakes last year, but he's not as confident of a repeat performance on Saturday.Payne will start Prerequisite in the Light Fing...

A proposal to limit protest hearings solely to jockeys gained no support at the national steward’s conference, reports Racing Network. Racing Victoria chairman of stewards Terry Bailey, who ran t...

Mark Kavanagh is planning a light autumn campaign for star three-year-old Whobegotyou with a long range plan to race him overseas next year.Kavanagh said the Caulfield Guineas winner would most lik...

Mark Kavanagh is planning a light autumn campaign for star three-year-old Whobegotyou with a long range plan to race him overseas next year.Kavanagh said the Caulfield Guineas winner would most lik...