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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...

AUSTRALIA'S greatest trainer, Bart Cummings, yesterday condemned a proposed lockdown of Melbourne Cup runners 24 hours before the race, reports The Age.It adds: Cummings said the Canadian system of...

A proposal to limit protest hearings solely to jockeys gained no support at the national steward’s conference, reports Racing Network. Racing Victoria chairman of stewards Terry Bailey, who ran t...

The Australian Jockey Club will continue to push for a merger of Sydney's two clubs despite the Sydney Turf Club members' rejection of the proposal.Just 462 of the 5000-plus STC members voted on Mo...

Legislation enabling the merger of Sydney's two race clubs could be passed as early as September, igniting a $174 million cash injection for the upgrade of Randwick and Rosehill racecourses.The boa...

Legislation enabling the merger of Sydney's two race clubs could be passed as early as September, igniting a $174 million cash injection for the upgrade of Randwick and Rosehill racecourses.The boa...

Legislation enabling the merger of Sydney's two race clubs could be passed as early as September, igniting a $174 million cash injection for the upgrade of Randwick and Rosehill racecourses.The boa...