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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...

Surprise, surprise...A State Govt commissione report says there should be a merger of the AJC and STC. The outcome hardly comes as a shock to anyone. As soon as the Minister called for the report, ...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

It's what I call the 'infinite puzzle' of betting: Just when DO you bet and when DON'T you bet? I believe that if we could answer that question we would be well on our way to punting heaven here o...

It's what I call the 'infinite puzzle' of betting: Just when DO you bet and when DON'T you bet? I believe that if we could answer that question we would be well on our way to punting heaven here o...