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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...

Jockey Danny Nikolic fronts Racing Victoria stewards next Thursday to answer a charge of contacting a professional punter during a January race meeting. Stewards quizzed Nikolic on Tuesday after be...

ALMOST four months after investigations began into a number of Dan Nikolic's beaten rides, Victorian racing stewards will today release the charges, if any, the jockey will have to answer, reports ...

FORMER high-profile Gold Coast bookmaker has emerged as an important figure in the long-running investigation into a number of jockey Dan Nikolic's beaten rides, reports Andrew Eddy in The Age.His ...

RACING Victoria stewards grilled Danny Nikolic for more than an hour last night as the exhaustive probe took another tack, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun.Stewards focused on the identity of about...

PROFESSIONAL punter Mark Hunter has provided Racing Victoria stewards with the documents they requested, reports TVN. It says: Hunter delivered his telephone records as asked for by RV deputy chair...

Sydney stewards have adjourned an inquiry into the riding tactics adopted by Glyn Schofield aboard the Chris Waller-trained Flying Zero in the De Bortoli Wines Handicap over 1200m at Canterbury on ...