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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...

The Moonee Valley Racing Club yesterday received 14 nominations for Saturday's William Reid Stakes, with a gallop at the track this morning to help decide if $10 million colt, Starspangledbanner ru...

Blake Shinn is expected to appeal his careless riding charge suspension incurred at Royal Randwick on Wednesday in a bid to ride Cyclone in the Magic Millions Classic. Shinn has not yet officiall...

The fightback begins...Danny Nikolic has lodged an appeal to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal over his two year disqualification by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board. The RA...

Prolific winning NSW rider Greg Ryan has appealed against his six week suspension handed down yesterday by Racing NSW stewards. This morning Ryan lodged an appeal against the suspension resulting...

Nick Hall has been successful with his careless riding appeal and will ride at Flemington tomorrow. Hall is booked to ride Caulfield Cup winner  Fawkner  first-up in the Group 1 $400,000 Makybe D...

Jockey  Chad Schofield  will appeal a 32-meeting suspension that left the young hoop shattered with his Spring hopes in tatters. Schofield’s manager Mark Van Triet told racing.com the 20-year-old...