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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...

THREE race series initiatives spread across Queensland will form an important plank in the State Government's plan to rejuvenate country racing, reports Bart Sinclair in the Courier-Mail in Brisban...

Brian Jenkins is planning to move on as soon as possible from Seguro's luckless defeat at Bendigo on Sunday.The Cranbourne trainer has decided on a quick back-up and Seguro will run in Saturday's $...

Darley dabbles...The big and hungry Darley outfit will showcase three of its Blue Diamond hopefuls in two States next Saturday to ramp up the assault on the $1 million race. Montsegur and Kuroshio ...

THE plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

The fate of Sydney's showcase spring carnival meeting on October 1 will be announced on Friday amid concerns over the safety of one of the main grandstands at Randwick.Corrosion in structural steel...

Bendigo has been granted a premier stand alone Saturday meeting for three years with the first to be held in March next year.To be known as the Golden Mile raceday, the meeting will replace the Mel...