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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...

A huge fire at a nearby paint factory has forced Friday's Canberra race meeting at Thoroughbred Park to be abandoned.

Jockey  Luke Currie has been stood down from riding after returning a positive swab, leaving connections of Tuscan Fire looking for another rider for the stayer in the Caulfield Cup.

Organisers of a mass sell-off of horses owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler say it is not a fire sale, reports the ABC.It says: Mr Tinkler's Hunter Valley-based Patinack Farm is offloading aroun...

Talented mare Bird Of Fire will go into the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown as the form horse after trainer Tony Vasil decided to extend her spring campaign on the back of two stakes wins.Vas...

Will we see a real Yankee raider in Melbourne in 2010? US sprinter Cannonball, a bold 2nd in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, is in Hong Kong for the big HK Sprint in December, and connect...

Is support building for the WA contender Scenic Shot in the Cox Plate? TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie told PPD: 'We can report significant interest this afternoon...Bets taken today include $10,000 @...