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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 Magic Millions raceday at the Gold Coast is in peril as rain continues to lash southeast Queensland. Specials plans have been drawn up to shift the $4.3m Magic Millions raceday to a historic Su...

THE plans for a two-day Cox Plate meeting, which has triggered an angry response from critics who fear the Moonee Valley track surface could be badly affected for Australia's weight-for-age champio...

DAMIEN Oliver moved within one win of a share of the premiership lead with his victory on South Australian  Qadir , but for the second consecutive meeting it came at a cost.   Racing Victor...

Racing Victoria (RV) has released the framework for its 2012-13 racing calendar which will feature 576 race meetings across the state from 1 August to 31 July.The annual meeting total represents an...

Trainer Rob Heathcote will have earned his pay cheque if one of his Doomben and interstate representatives is successful on Saturday.Heathcote has had a hectic schedule over the past six days start...

You're simply the (10th) best...Is the rest of the world unaware of So You Think's perceived megastar status Down Under? Seems so. Latest World Thoroughbred Rankings, published by the International...