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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...

Hong Kong Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has declared Hong Kong will play a much bigger, steering role in the direction of world racing after this week's Asian Racing Conf...

Hong Kong Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has declared Hong Kong will play a much bigger, steering role in the direction of world racing after this week's Asian Racing Conf...

Key positions have been announced to head Sydney's new race club which it is hoped will be up and running by the end of the month.The only obstruction to the merger of the Australian Jockey Club (A...

Good news (at last) for Danny Nikolic...His 2-year disqualification for threatening chief stipe Terry Bailey has been eased. VCAT vice-president Judge Michael Macnamara changed Nikolic's penalty to...

Newcastle will host a race meeting on Tuesday to compensate for lost meetings in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.The 10-race Newcastle meeting, announced by Racing NSW on Friday, has been organis...