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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...

Blake Shinn and Peter Robl have been charged by Racing NSW stewards with multiple counts of illegal betting on races. Shinn is charged with placing numerous bets via the Tabcorp account of his moth...

How long a stretch will they get? Blake Shinn and Peter Robl pleaded guilty to all the betting charges laid by stewards against them at a hearing at the AJC offices on Friday. The pair were nabbed ...

Ouch, that hurt...Racing NSW stewards have hit Sydney jockeys Peter Robl and Blake Shinn with lengthy disqualifications at the conclusion of an inquiry into the pair's illegal betting. Shinn was gi...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn is one of two riders reportedly being investigated for allegedly placing illegal bets on horse races.Fairfax newspapers have reported Shinn and Sydney jocke...

Here we go again...Three bookmakers have been charged and up to six more are being investigated over alleged illegal offering of rewards to open a betting account. Under Victorian laws, credit or r...

Jockey Peter Robl is considering his employment options after failing to have a 12-month disqualification over illegal betting activities reduced or varied on appeal.He had hoped to have part of th...