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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...

Memo to TVN's motor-mouth Richard Callander: Give up the 'he's got the bikkies' cliche will you? Screaming it out every race, usually before and after, must be driving viewers mad. I know it annoys...

Trainer Richard Laming has been disqualified for three years on each of three charges at the completion of Australia's first thoroughbred EPO case.Laming, 28, had pleaded guilty to seven charges in...

Leading UK trainer Richard Hannon is planning a Caulfield Cup assault with Pether’s Moon, winner of the Grp 3 Glorious Stakes (2400m) at Goodwood last Friday. One of the key staying races run at ...

The father-son training team of Bevan and Richard Laming is looking for stakes wins in two states on Saturday with Naadji the first of their chances in action in the Winter Cup at Rosehill.Later in...

The father-son training team of Bevan and Richard Laming is looking for stakes wins in two states on Saturday with Naadji the first of their chances in action in the Winter Cup at Rosehill.Later in...

The father-son training team of Bevan and Richard Laming is looking for stakes wins in two states on Saturday with Naadji the first of their chances in action in the Winter Cup at Rosehill.Later in...