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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...

It's all going to happen in Queensland if we're to believe the Bob Bentley-inspired 'Industry Infrastructure Plan' from Racing Queensland, released on Tuesday. Take a look at the promised menu:*$30...

Saturday's cross-meeting BIG6 on the NSW TAB promised to deliver a big result and that's exactly how it turned out. With TAB Sportsbet guaranteeing the pool would reach a minimum $1million, the fir...

Racing NSW has failed in its defence of the Federal Court case brought against it by bookmaking firm Sportsbet. Judge Nye Perram held that the 1.5% of turnover race fields levy was not validly char...

Metal Bender looks like a class-A prospect for the Caulfield Cup for boom Sydney trainer Chris Waller. He might also be a Cox Plate chance AND a Melbourne Cup hope, though the 3200m is likely to b...

For how much longer will TVN survive? It seems this is THE question of the day following news that in the Victorian Supreme Court, TVN lost its case to stop Melbourne and Sydney races being shown o...

Bookmaker Tom Waterhouse faces a $1 million payout if outsider Wanted wins Saturday's $3.5 million Golden Slipper at Rosehill.Waterhouse took a series of bets at $51 from a commission agent at Frid...