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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...

An Old WarningNothing's certain in racing.Surprised at this comment? Of course not.But for many years now I've warned against the outside barriers in sprints at Rosehill.Except when it's wet. Then ...

Few seem happy over the 'slash and burn' tactics currently underway in NSW racing, with prizemoney slashed for major races. Trainer Anthony Cummings fears for the future of Sydney racing carnivals....

BARRIERS TO SUCCESSI never tire of issuing this wanring.Be wary of the barriers at Rosehill until the races get out to 2000 metres and above.It's hard not to sound like a CD on "repeat", but please...

áMaking Money at the Races (6)Let's have any ideas you come up with about this balance between the careful, safety methods and the risky but tempting alternative approaches.Using my own research gl...

The scuttlebutt from Hong Kong is that champ Darren Beadman's riding career could be over. Beadman, 46, suffered a broken right cheekbone and head trauma in a fall in a February 17 barrier trial an...

A SMALL group of Australian punters who have accounts with the world's largest betting exchange, Betfair, will be the basis of an investigation into jockey Danny Nikolic by Racing Victoria Stewards...