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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...

Trainer Bryan Guy is hopeful Brave Gal can deliver Matthew Palmer his first winner since the star apprentice recently ended speculation on his riding future when the pair combine at Doomben.Palmer,...

Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...

Keen fisherman Matthew Palmer is hoping for a big catch at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The 22-year-old apprentice, who loves to throw in a line at his canal home on the Gold Coast, will outride his clai...

Top Gold Coast apprentice Matthew Palmer and former Rockhampton junior Chris McIver laid a few personal demons to rest with a successful day at Doomben.Palmer, 22, gave his first hint he could turn...

Champion jockey Shane Dye is weighing up an offer to continue his career in India after severing ties with racing in Mauritius.Dye has parted company with trainer Rameshwar Gujadhur - his second sp...

Apprentice Matthew Palmer has made the toughest call of his career by deciding to remain on the Gold Coast where he'll link with trainer Bruce Hill for the next three months.Palmer, 22, made a surp...