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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...

Robbie Laing pulled off probably the greatest training achievement of his career when Sir Pentire, having his first in two years, won the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool.The 50-year-old ha...

Sir Pentire will not lack fitness when he lines up in Thursday's testing Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool despite not having raced for two years.The nine-year-old underwent stem cell therap...

THE grim reality of stagnating revenue returns from wagering means race clubs nationwide now must look further afield to secure their future, reports the Courier-Mail in Brisbane.It says: Queenslan...

From RACING POST HKTai Sing Yeh returned without much fanfare at the Sha Tin barrier trials yesterday, but you can bet your proverbial bottom dollar he will be back with a bang at the races after h...

Can you hypnotise yourself into becoming a winner? Probably not, though a French gambler hit the headlines when he claimed some years ago that he won millions of francs in a casino after he'd been...

Bill Williams will delay choosing his Hiskens Steeplechase mount until after the Robbie Laing-trained pair Hasta Manana and Sir Pentire school at Mornington on Wednesday.Both are down to trial over...