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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...

Star jockey Danny Nikolic has denied assaulting a fellow rider at a Melbourne racetrack.Nikolic, 37, is facing three charges of assault against jockey Mark Pegus at Caulfield Racecourse on January ...

Unbeaten three-year-old Any Dream Will Do will have his third rider in as many starts when he makes his city debut at Sandown.Steven King snapped up Wednesday's ride in the Le Pine Funerals Handica...

Gold Salute is looking good for Sat's Toorak Hdcp at Caulfield. He geared up with a solid trackwork hitout on the Mornington course proper on Tues. Jockey Mark Pegus says: 'He's usually a lazy trac...

Talented sprinter Amerryking can crown a comeback from a career-threatening condition in the Standish Handicap at Flemington.Trainer John McArdle is thrilled with the six-year-old's recovery from a...

Gold Salute's improved performance in the Toorak Handicap has charged his jockey Mark Pegus with confidence heading into the Patinack Farm Crystal Mile at Moonee Valley.Pegus said Gold Salute didn'...

Jockey Mark Pegus has dismissed an awkward barrier draw as a hindrance to the winning chances of Gold Salute in the Toorak Handicap.The in-form six-year-old is on a mission to set the record straig...