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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...

Gai Waterhouse has cut short an overseas trip and is expected to arrive in Sydney on Friday following the death of her mother Valerie Smith.Mrs Smith had been in ill health for some time and died e...

Rain remains the biggest threat to the gala Magic Millions day proceeding at the Gold Coast on Saturday.Stewards inspected the track for a second time on Thursday morning and were amazed at the rap...

GOLD COAST Acceptances on Saturday 9th January, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: 2 metres 900-400; True 400-W/Post; 1 metre Remainder--------------------------------------------------------------------------...