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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...

Bad break for Bart...Master blaster Bart Cummings is in hospital after fracturing his pelvis. Son Anthony says Bart is likely to remain in hospital for the next couple of days. Apparently, the grea...

Veteran jockey  Darren Gauci was taken to Bendigo Hospital for x-rays after a fall from Royal Mephisto in the Showcase 0-64 Handicap today at Bendigo. Paramedics had concerns over Gauci's swollen ...

Sydney based jockey Peter Robl has been airlifted to a Newcastle hospital after a fall in the opening race at Scone, reoorts Racing Network. Robl crashed to the turf after being dislodged by the ...

Gold Coast jockey Matt Palmer was taken to Brisbane's Mater hospital for X-rays after suffering suspected back and neck injuries following a fall at Eagle Farm.Palmer, who suffered a serious neck i...

Gold Coast jockey Matt Palmer was taken to Brisbane's Mater hospital for X-rays after suffering suspected back and neck injuries following a fall at Eagle Farm.Palmer, who suffered a serious neck i...

Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...