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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...

Irish bookmaking giant Paddy Power is to take over full ownership of leading Australian corporate bookmaker Sportsbet. PP already owns 60.8 percent of Sportsbet.com.au and now will acquire the rema...

  A wet track at Grafton on Friday is music to Paddy Cunningham’s ears with his stayer Red Celtique, reports Racing NSW. Even a drying surface – heavy 8 at acceptances on Wednesday to a soft 7 on ...

Promising filly She's A Fox is OUT of the spring racing. She's copped a minor strain to a ligament in the knee., according to trainer Anthony Cummings. Scans have revealed the problem is not career...

Michelle Payne became the fourth member of her family to either ride or train the winner of the Bendigo Cup when she guided the Mick Kent-trained Banana Man to victory in the Listed feature.She emu...

Black Caviar's half-sister Belle Couture just missed out on a win on debut at Bendigo on Sunday.  Greg Eurell, Brad Rawiller and Paddy’s Gem proved the party poopers, reports Racing Network.

Co-trainer Brian Johnston says Brierly Steeple runner-up Tarawera will not back up in Thursday's Listed Warrnambool Cup (2350m). Tarawera drew wide in gate #17 for the $150,000 feature, prompting ...