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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...

Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...

Sunday's meeting at Sha Tin has been cancelled due to an approaching typhoon.

From NEIL FRANKLYNCOOL CRUISING3f Trainer : John Sargent 8 starts : 2 wins Win distance range : 1350 - 1400mTrack conditions won on : HeavyOne Cool Cat sprinter who's taken a little while to strike...

Irish raider Dirar swept through the field to land the big Ebor Hdcp at York UK. Gordon Elliott's 5YO was sent out at 14/1 after his 3rd behind the reopposing Overturn in the Galway Hurdle but whil...

Local hero Marasco is strongly fancied to emulate his trainer Fred Kersley's former champion Northerly and win Saturday's Group One $1 million Railway Stakes at Ascot."Mighty M" is much loved in We...

West Australian Gilded Venom repelled the eastern states raiders to power to a narrow but decisive victory in the Group One $1 million Railway Stakes at Ascot.Perfectly ridden by Pat Carbery who wo...