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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...

Talented jockey Nathan Berry knows he needs to reduce his time spent on the sidelines if he is to take his career to the next level.Berry returns from a seven-meeting suspension at Rosehill on Satu...

One wears a red hat to trackwork and the other wears a blue one and that's how trainer Gary Portelli differentiates between identical twins Nathan and Tommy Berry.But one thing he knows for sure is...

A favourable barrier draw for favourite Driefontein has young jockey Tommy Berry extremely confident of snaring back-to-back Magic Millions Classics.Driefontein firmed at the head of betting for Sa...

When Nathan Berry saw Lionel Cohen's number appear on his mobile phone a couple of weeks ago, a big grin appeared on his face.Cohen trains Aeronautical, the gelding Berry rode four times last prepa...

Apprentice Nathan Berry learned quickly after an earlier dressing down from Gai Waterhouse to claim his first winner for the champion trainer on Flying Success.Waterhouse had words with Berry after...

Brendan McCarthy's Zedi Knight heads a quality list of 27 noms for Caulfield's traditional Boxing Day feature the $120,000 Christmas Stakes (1200m). With 60kgs, the 8YO gelding faces a task to make...