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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...

He's back (again)...Injury-plagued Jim Cassidy is likely to return to race riding early next month after recovering from career threatening injuries. 'The Pumper' slashed one of his hands in a gard...

Has 'lucky' Jim Cassidy picked up the winning ride in the Caulfield Cup? Many think he has. The Pumper's been chosen to ride Glencadam Gold, the reigning favorite. Unluckily missing out is Tommy Be...

Wags are suggesting trainer Tony Vasil lose some weight and return to being a jockey. They say it's the only way he will have his horses ridden the way he wants. Vasil copped a $500 fine for a heat...

Whitefriars is out of Sat's Orr Stakes and this means jockey Jim Cassidy will be in Sydney to ride at Randwick. He'll be on Slow The Flow (Light Fingers Stakes), Kiwi import Miss Keepsake (Breeders...

They say jockeys are bad tipsters but some of them know what they are talking about...Jim Cassidy is one, so perhaps we should listen (and so should trainer Rick Worthington) when 'The Pumper' decl...

Jockey Jim Cassidy will have operations on both knees and his right ankle later this month as the grand slam-winning rider steels himself for the final chapter of his long and colourful riding care...