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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...

Anthony Cummings may be training the bulk of Nathan Tinkler's expensive thoroughbreds but Jason Coyle's strike rate must be impressing the Patinack Farm boss.The young Newcastle trainer has had two...

Glen Boss will ride crack juvenile Smart Missile in a gallop at Randwick on Saturday morning before returning to Caulfield for six rides that afternoon, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: '...

Glen Boss made a special trip to Sydney to ride classy colt Smart Missile in a track gallop at Randwick on Saturday and was pleased with the way he is progressing ahead of his spring campaign."He w...

Glen Boss is of the opinion that he will stick to El Roca's racing pattern and roll forward from a wide barrier in Saturday's $3 million The Star Doncaster Mile... reports Brent Zerafa from Racing...

FIRST SHOCK! Jockeys at Ballarat refused to ride after learning the Australian Racing Board had refused to make any changes to those crazy new whip rules. Industrial action is likely to spread like...

Champion jockey Glen Boss is keen to ride at Caulfield on Wednesday after his corked thigh improved significantly overnight.Boss was kicked by his mount, two-year-old first starter Vicomte, in the ...