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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...

The Victorian thoroughbred racing industry generates nearly $2.1 billion for the Victorian economy and engages close to 72,000 people as an employee, volunteer or participant, according to a repo...

Last year's Melbourne Cup was worth $700 million to the Australian economy and more than half the population stopped to watch Viewed give master trainer Bart Cummings his 12th win in the time-honou...

The mining industry does not support a moratorium on coal mining in the Hunter Valley but says it will continue to work with all industries including thoroughbred breeders.A 10-point plan released ...

Jockey  Talia Rodder  is improving steadily after a trackwork incident that saw her trampled by a two-year-old at Caulfield last week, reports Racing Victoria. Rodder returned to the Royal Melbou...

Punters and Sydney racing fans have backed the new-look Golden Slipper Carnival, with strong free-to-air and pay TV audience numbers - and big increases in TAB turnover - during three days of rac...

The movement of illegal and unregulated gambling operators from a domestic to a global footing represents the greatest of a widening range of threats to horse racing, Hong Kong Jockey Club chief...