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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 looks like the bookmakers are convinced Efficient will not run in the Melbourne Cup. Most are already adjusting markets to reflect his absence from the field. Sportingbet has eassed Efficient ou...

CRAIG Williams is the latest jockey to be given the task of turning around the fortunes of Ready To Rip, reports the Brisbane Courier-Mail.It says: Williams has been engaged for Ready To Rip in the...

It's always an absorbing talking point in racing to discuss 'where' the winners come from in a race. How many horses lead all the way? How many come from the first few on the turn? How many come f...

Doomben 10,000 placers Black Piranha and All Silent turned in great Stradbroke trials. BP steamed home from the rear at the 400m to run Apache Cat to a head and would have won in another stride. Jo...

Major moves...Unbeaten Blue Diamond winner Sepoy will run at Rosehill on Saturday before tackling the 'mountain' of the Golden Slipper at the same track two weeks later. Sepoy's return from a short...

Gangland investigators are set to turn up the heat on Victorian racing's underbelly amid reports homicide detectives are closing in on murdered trainer Les Samba's assassin, reports Fairfax Media. ...