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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...

For many the Melbourne Cup is simply a four letter word - Bart.Australia's greatest living trainer is known to the once a year punter as the Cups King due to his 12 victories in the country's most ...

For many the Melbourne Cup is simply a four letter word - Bart.Australia's greatest living trainer is known to the once a year punter as the Cups King due to his 12 victories in the country's most ...

Queensland sprinter Temple Of Boom gave trainer Tony Gollan his first Group One victory when he zoomed home to win the Galaxy at Randwick on Saturday.His triumph also capped a red letter day for 20...

Queensland sprinter Temple Of Boom gave trainer Tony Gollan his first Group One victory when he zoomed home to win the Galaxy at Randwick on Saturday.His triumph also capped a red letter day for 20...

Since the introduction of the "you cannot whip a horse any more than X times at spots Y or any other letter" during a race I have been waiting for the inevitable to happen. After the Australian Cup...

The Melbourne Cup- Some Thoughts.We'll all have a lash at the Cup. Capital letter for that one. It's THE Cup, after all. The one everyone wants to win.And the one we punters all have to try our luc...