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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...

TOMORROW’S Moonee Valley meeting has been changed to a twilight program. After consulting with Moonee Valley Racing Club and mindful of the scorching 40 plus temperatures forecast tomorrow, Racin...

Jumps racing in Victoria has been marred by the first death of a horse since the controversial sport resumed in May.Whatsourgo suffered an injury when he fell at the last hurdle during the Ted Best...

Jumps racing in Victoria has been marred by the first death of a horse since the controversial sport resumed in May.Whatsourgo suffered an injury when he fell at the last hurdle during the Ted Best...

Jumps racing in Victoria has been marred by the first death of a horse since the controversial sport resumed in May.Whatsourgo suffered an injury when he fell at the last hurdle during the Ted Best...

A huge fire at a nearby paint factory has forced Friday's Canberra race meeting at Thoroughbred Park to be abandoned.

A minor leg injury has forced Oakleigh Plate winner Swiss Ace out of the Melbourne spring carnival.Swiss Ace was being aimed at the Group One Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on September 25.The fi...