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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 merger of Sydney's two race clubs has been given the seal of approval by the ACCC and will be in action as soon as it is passed through the NSW parliament.Key executive positions for the as yet...

Corruption allegations have claimed key scalps at the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC), with the chief executive sacked and the chairman and his deputy to stand down.As police investigations con...

Australian Derby winner Mongolian Khan has been installed as the $10 favourite with TAB to win the Caulfield Cup ahead of Hauraki ($12) and Volkstoknbarrell ($12). With strong Sydney carnival f...

The Moonee Valley Racing Club (MVRC) has announced a $2.5 million prizemoney increase for the 2009-10 season to almost $21 million, and made some key changes to its racing program.The prizemoney bo...

KATELYN Mallyon has ridden her first winner since resuming from a horrific fall at Flemington last May. Mallyon, who resumed riding on February 9, partnered the Matt Ellerton and Simon Zahra traine...

The bubbly served trackside and in the sumptuous marquees at this year's Melbourne Cup will still be French, but in a massive break in sponsorship and tradition, the Champagne will no longer be pou...