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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 connections of Dunaden might have emerged as big winners after snaring Sunday's Hong Kong Vase (2400 metres) on the way home to France, but while the Victoria Racing Club will not see a cent of...

By MURRAY BELL in Hk Racing PostHaving ground out a more-than-satisfactory result in 2008-09 against the dire background of the global economic crisis, the Jockey Club is already looking at some pi...

William Buick has continued his fairytale first season as stable jockey to John Gosden by steering Arctic Cosmos to victory in the English St Leger.The Norwegian-born Buick added the world's oldest...

John Size-trained  Khaya  left a few fingers burnt last start but the consistent five-year-old can put himself back in the good books by winning the Group Three Sa Sa Ladies Purse (1,800m) at Sha ...

Things are changing so rapidly in the world of gambling, thanks to the boom in the Internet, that all the "old ways" of doing things need to be thrown out the window. Though whether the people wh...

Things are changing so rapidly in the world of gambling, thanks to the boom in the Internet, that all the "old ways" of doing things need to be thrown out the window. Though whether the people wh...