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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...

Damian Browne threw a scare into the Woorim camp ahead of his bid for successive Group One wins in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday when the jockey narrowly avoided serious injury a...

Racing Queensland stewards have hit Damian Browne with a six week ban for failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures aboard  Kingtantes  at a recent Eagle Farm meeting. Browne plea...

Jockey Damian Browne made a triumphant comeback to the saddle following recent leg surgery with a victory aboard Troubled at Eagle Farm.Browne, who is restricted to only four rides a meeting becaus...

Jockey Damian Browne made a triumphant comeback to the saddle following recent leg surgery with a victory aboard Troubled at Eagle Farm.Browne, who is restricted to only four rides a meeting becaus...

Trainer Rob Heathcote will gamble on a crucial gear change to snare a Group success with Excellantes in the Gold Coast Guineas on Saturday.Heathcote will put blinkers on the son of Falvelon in the ...

Jockey Damian Browne missed the major part of the winter carnival through suspension but made up for it at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Browne was in outstanding form and notched a winning treble when he...