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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 Michelle Payne has been left with four fractured vertebrae and broken ribs in the aftermath of a fall at Sunday's Donald race meeting.Payne was taken to the local hospital after the fall whi...

Eight jockeys were fined after Racing Victoria stewards discovered mobile phones in the jockeys' room at Sandown on Wednesday.All eight were fined for being in possession of mobile phones including...

Eight jockeys were fined after Racing Victoria stewards discovered mobile phones in the jockeys' room at Sandown on Wednesday.All eight were fined for being in possession of mobile phones including...

HALL-OF-FAME trainer Lee Freedman yesterday broke new ground after being fined $750 for blasting stewards at Caulfield on Twitter over their decision to scratch his horse Our Smokin' Rock at the ba...

Three jockeys found guilty of betting on thoroughbred racing were each fined $1,000 today by Racing Victoria stewards. Michelle Payne, Anthony Darmanin and Michael Walker all pleaded guilty to havi...

Holidaying Aussie jockey Michelle Payne rode a 9/1 winner at the Warwick meeting in England overnight. She scored a 3 lengths win aboard the Jane Chapple-Hyam trained Iasia in a 1400m Class 5 race....