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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...

It's all synthetic...Next Wednesday's scheduled Sandown Betfair Park meeting is to be transferred to the Geelong synthetic track and that means there'll be three consecutive days of racing on the G...

Several Victorian country race clubs have made submissions to have their courses ripped up and replaced with synthetic tracks following the success of the artificial surface at Geelong.Racing Victo...

Thursday's Ballarat meeting has been transferred to the Geelong Synthetic track. Heavy rain throughout Victoria over 24 hours, much of it in the Ballarat area, made the track unsafe for racing.

This is interesting - the track that's supposed to be the saviour of washed-out turf meetings has fallen victim itself...Yes, Friday's Geelong synthetic meeting has had to be switched to Pakenham. ...

Racing on the stone-riddled Geelong ThoroughTrack has been suspended indefinitely pending a possible synthetic resurfacing.Racing Victoria Limited has been investigating potential changes to the sy...

Wednesday's Betfair Park Sandown meeting has been transferred to the Geelong Synthetic track. Stewards inspected the Sandown track on Tuesday afternoon before deciding the track was unsafe.