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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...

Jockey Kieren Fallon has courted fresh controversy by saying there is a drugs problem within British horse racing.Fallon added the issue of drug taking among the racing community was especially acu...

Controversial UK jockey Kieren Fallon is heading to Australia to ride in the Melbourne Cup on November 1. He is likely to be aboard one of Luca Cumani's Cup hopes - Bauer, Drunken Sailor or Manigha...

More strife on the UK racing scene...Britain's Sunday Telegraph says: 'The British Horseracing Authority is to investigate allegations that jockeys have pocketed ú5,000 a time from criminal gangs w...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...