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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 hoop  Chad Schofield  is expected to be in hospital “for some time” following a nasty fall which resulted in suspected fractures to both arms at  G eelong on Sunday . The 20-year-old wa...

Lots of confidence from the David Hayes stable for Flemington...DH is expecting a big effort from Extra Zero and an improved performance from Arms Wide Open. Extra Zero is favorite at 3/1 for the G...

NERVE wracking is how Peter Robl described the time he spent lying on the track yesterday after his fall at Scone, reports Racing Network.

There's cautiously optimistic news about Jake Noonan after his bad race fall at Flemington. He was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital and last night Victorian Jockeys Association chief exec Des O'Ke...

PETER Robl faces an indefinite time away from riding as he recovers from bruising to his spinal cord. Specialists told Robl that the MRI taken following his fall at Scone last week revealed bruis...

AUSTRALIAN RACING BOARD chairman Bob Bentley yesterday issued a blistering attack on the country's governments, corporate bookmakers and betting exchanges while warning the $5 billion industry face...