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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...

SYDNEY advertising giant John Singleton is urging the Australian Turf Club to entice outstanding sprinter Black Caviar to Sydney for a match-race with his mare More Joyous next month, reports The A...

CONNECTIONS of Frankel, the world's No.1 rated racehorse, have shrugged off suggestions of a clash with unbeaten mare Black Caviar this year, reports The Age.It says: Lord Grimthorpe, racing manage...

Descarado is OUT of Sat's Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. The scratching was officially confirmed on Thursday morning. Last year's Caulfield Cup winner had been battling a leg problem but trainer Gai W...

Steady soaking rain means a heavy track for Sat's Golden Slipper meeting, and that's official...Rosehill track manager Lindsay Murphy says the Rosehill course proper received 50 mils of rain over t...

Will we see Japanese horses racing in the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups? It's possible but it's going to take some nifty official footwork. Racing Victoria says the Federal government has less than...

Melbourne Cup second fav Efficient is under an injury 'watch'. Racing Victoria vets examined Efficient on Thursday and later it was admitted the 2007 Cup winner is suffering from 'an old injury' to...