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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...

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN.I'm consolidating what we know and what we have seen/can see at present, in regard to the upcoming carnivals. I should be able to put it on here within a day or two...

Heavy rain wreaked havoc on the Easter Monday program at Randwick with two of the three stakes races scheduled for the course proper transferred to the Kensington track and the final race abandoned...

THE big wet that hit Flemington on Victoria Derby day last Saturday week and stayed through to Tuesday meant the crowds numbers over the four days - 353,178 - were the lowest since 2001, reports Th...

WHILE Zoustar may have been a nomination for the Newmarket Handicap, the champion colt will race exclusively in Sydney before he heads to the UK in June, says Racing Network.

Innocent until proven guilty? It would be nice if this actually meant anything these days. Just ask Mark Zahra. Named and instantly 'shamed' in the wild allegations being thrown around about race f...

It should never happen again! What I'm referring to is the VRC's decision to allow Channel 7 to totally control spring racing TVcoverage. It meant a lockout of TVN and Sky - the channels that suppo...