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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...

Mark Kavanagh remains optimistic that Super Cool may yet attain the Spring Racing Carnival glory that eluded him last year when  the son of Fastnet Rock was tipped as a likely star following his ...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...

N A week's time, Luke Nolen's face may well be broadcast around the globe as the rider of the world's fastest horse, Black Caviar, following her run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in ...

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) says it is facing a cash crisis that could threaten the Belmont Stakes and thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.The NYRA is waiting for the state government to ...

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) says it is facing a cash crisis that could threaten the Belmont Stakes and thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.The NYRA is waiting for the state government to ...