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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...

By ALAN AITKENwww.racing.scmp.comWhile the focus of Monday's inquiry into Darren Beadman's ride on Collection in Sunday's Audemars Piguet QE II Cup was on the jockey's tactics in the race, it did t...

J OHN Singleton was fined $15,000 for his conduct in the explosive More Joyous inquiry.  

The Victorian trainers facing cobalt charges won’t be allowed to receive any prizemoney earned from Group or Listed races in this state until their cases are resolved.   Racing Victoria stewar...

A horse raced by one of Australia's biggest punters and an unraced Crown Lodge colt have been identified as early Golden Slipper firmers during the first day of pre-post betting on the world's rich...

Danny Nikolic has failed in his bid to win a 'stay' of his 2 year riding ban. The Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal handed down its decision on Tuesday afternoon. It means Nikolic's career ...

THE metropolitan jumping season ended on a high for Ciaron Maher, Steven Pateman, Trent Wells and Fran Houlahan yesterday, but if jumps advocates have their way next year, the season finale might t...