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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...

Mark Zahra has been suspended for 29 meetings for careless riding which led to Danny Brereton being seriously injured in a race fall.Zahra pleaded guilty to a charge of riding his mount Bullbars ou...

The official findings into the race fall that left jockey Danny Brereton with spinal injuries concluded yesterday when Mark Zahra was found guilty of careless riding and suspended until January 1, ...

An inquiry into the race fall in which popular jockey Danny Brereton suffered serious injuries is to be held on Monday.Jockeys Nick Hall, Mark Zahra, James Winks and Brent Stanley have been asked t...

JOCKEY Danny Brereton has almost certainly ridden in his last race after confirmation yesterday that he suffered spinal-cord damage and is struggling to regain full movement following a horror fall...

Jockey Danny Brereton remains in intensive care in a Melbourne hospital following spinal surgery.Brereton, 45, suffered career-threatening injuries in a fall in the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley...