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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...

Authorities fear yet another horse has died from the Hendra virus in southern Queensland.The horse fell ill and died at Park Ridge, south of Brisbane, on Monday night, not far from where other Hend...

A cross-border task force has been set up to combat the spread of the deadly Hendra virus in Queensland and NSW.Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell have agreed...

There was a Hendra virus scare at Randwick racecourse on Thursday when a horse showed possible symptoms of the deadly infection.Tests have since cleared the horse of having the virus, which has res...

A fourth horse is confirmed to have died from the Hendra virus in NSW.The horse died suddenly in the paddock of a property near Lismore on the NSW north coast on Thursday.Before the horse was burie...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...

Three horse stud workers under observation in hospital for the Hendra virus could be discharged as early as next week, the father of one of the patients says.Stud manager Debbie Brown and colleague...