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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...

TOP trainer Danny O'Brien yesterday rejected suggestions that his criticism of the Flemington surface on Saturday was motivated by a personal feud with course manager Mick Goodie, reports Michael L...

Nikita McLean will front Racing Victoria stewards tomorrow

RACING officials confirmed yesterday that there was no onus on owners, trainers or jockeys to speak to the media in the wake of owner Lloyd Williams' instruction to jockey Michael Rodd to refuse an...

J AMES Cummings hopes a resolution can be found to maintain his training partnership with his grandfather Bart Cummings, reports Racing Network.

Parlay betting has become all the rage in Australia (and now New Zealand!) this year-and it's little wonder. The parlay, like the trifecta, offers small punters the chance to hit big with a low ou...

Parlay betting has become all the rage in Australia (and now New Zealand!) this year-and it's little wonder. The parlay, like the trifecta, offers small punters the chance to hit big with a low ou...