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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...

Takeover Target hasn't scared Echuca trainer Gwenda Johnstone off her bid for back-to-back Goodwood Handicaps with Shadoways.Shadoways landed his first and only Group One victory in the 1200m featu...

The weights are printed (all 29 pages) for the Easter weekend and I have to be fairly brutal as to which races I retain for serious consideration. Over long weekends like this there are so many tem...

The weights are printed (all 29 pages) for the Easter weekend and I have to be fairly brutal as to which races I retain for serious consideration. Over long weekends like this there are so many tem...

When I first became interested in horseracing I was in my last year at Secondary College wayyyyy back in 1967 and when I could afford it I would buy a copy of The Sportsman, which I still do twice...

When I first became interested in horseracing I was in my last year at Secondary College wayyyyy back in 1967 and when I could afford it I would buy a copy of The Sportsman, which I still do twice...

When I first became interested in horseracing I was in my last year at Secondary College wayyyyy back in 1967 and when I could afford it I would buy a copy of The Sportsman, which I still do twice...