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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...

Deep Pockets Required.They fell over themselves to tell you of the certainties racing on Saturday.Manhattan Rain at blood-red odds (jumped in the air and found yet another way to lose his race), Ho...

Gai Waterhouse is making pertinent comments about the state of on-course racing. In her website blog (www.gaiwaterhouse.com.au), the #1 Lady of Racing says: 'I was talking to a good friend of mine ...

Autumn carnival punters are on the verge of cashing in for the second time in seven days on a glamour mare of the Australian turf.Professional and rank-and-file punters who won on the unbeaten Blac...

Flat stakes . . . safest and the best. That's the refrain we punters have been programmed to believe down through the years. It's hard to shake it off. But do we really have to live in a "flat ...

Flat stakes . . . safest and the best. That's the refrain we punters have been programmed to believe down through the years. It's hard to shake it off. But do we really have to live in a "flat wo...

Flat stakes . . . safest and the best. That's the refrain we punters have been programmed to believe down through the years. It's hard to shake it off. But do we really have to live in a "flat wo...