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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...

TAB Sportsbet has Fixed Odds markets now open on all 6 races from Day 1 of Royal Ascot tonight. Race 1: Special Frankel 'Out' market tonightBULLET TRAIN 51.00 EXCELEBRATION 1.75 INDOMITO 34.00 PREM...

It's Black Caviar Day at Royal Ascot - and although we won't be tipping against the mighty mare, our UK experts will have their 'best bets' for other races on the card. These are available to membe...

Royal Empire has been attracting some good money for the Melbourne Cup. The latest TAB price moves show him moving from 25/1 into 20/1.

Royal stayer Estimate will not run in the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington, says John Warren, bloodstock and racing advisor to the Queen. Connections of the Sir Michael Stoute-trained mare ha...

TAB Sportsbet punters quickly snapped up the early $8.50 offered on Royal Ida in Friday's $200,000 Grp 3 1200m Standish Handicap at Flemington. TAB Sportsbet spokesman Glenn Munsie says: 'The first...

TAB Sportsbet has promoted WA sprinter Scenic Blast to outright favoritism for the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot after a $15,000 wager on Thursday mmorning. The Dan Morton trained galloper was...