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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...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

Craig Newitt received a warm reception from the small Sandown crowd when he returned to scale on his first winner, the Mick Price-trained Das Machen, since his father Guy died in a car accident on ...

Craig Newitt knows what works for an Australian jockey leading into Royal Ascot, having partnered Miss Andretti to victory in the 2007 King’s Stand Stakes...

Bad news to start the week...Vinery Stud says that 2009/2010 Australian Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy died on Monday morning shortly after delivering her first foal. Tracy was retired from racing...

Family tragedy...Damien Oliver will miss Sat's Flemington meeting. He's to remain in Perth with his mother who was seriously injured in a car accident earlier this week. She sustained multiple frac...

Is this a good jockey tip? Craig Newitt will not be at Randwick on Saturday although he could have been...he's knocked back several rides to take six rides at Caulfield and Newitt says: 'I thought ...