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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...

Will Randwick winner Drumbeats back up in the Grp 1 1600m Epsom Hdcp? Trainer Peter Snowden still has to decide. Midweek should see an answer to the problem. Snowden says there are no guarantees Dr...

The Whobegotyou tsunami has arrived for the Cox Plate...The Dato winner is now a hot fav at 5/2. Centrebet's Neil Evans says: 'The punters have come from everywhere to back him in the Cox Plate...I...

I’ve lost count of the number of times people have asked me how to isolate “easy” races on which to bet. The quick answer most expect is for me to tell them to bet in races with only a handful of ...

Darren Beadman put a week of controversy behind him to rack up a Hong Kong personal best of four winners on Saturday's Sha Tin program.Beadman came under fire from the local media and was quizzed b...

Darren Beadman put a week of controversy behind him to rack up a Hong Kong personal best of four winners on Saturday's Sha Tin program.Beadman came under fire from the local media and was quizzed b...

Any winner is a good winner? Many would suggest that the question mark is not necessary, that the answer is an obvious and emphatic NO. They would say that to be prepared to take just any odds is ...