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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...

It's the start of a new season again. A time to look back, and, more importantly, to look ahead. We look back to analyse what we did right and what we did wrong. If possible, we don't want to mak...

It's the start of a new season again. A time to look back, and, more importantly, to look ahead. We look back to analyse what we did right and what we did wrong. If possible, we don't want to mak...

A TAB customer has pulled off one of the best punting stories you are likely to hear heading into the Spring Carnival.  Spending just $6, the punter snared 7.5 percent of the BIG6 at Caulfield (...

Here's an experiment: For the next 100 races, simply try to pick the winner. Don't worry about price. Just go for the maximum number of winners, but you can't skip any races. I'll bet that no mat...

The upper echelon of Australian horse racing are WFA races with undoubtedly the WS Cox Plate THE greatest of them all. These are the races where the best horses generally compete and they are also ...

The big money came for several runners but mostly it was off the mark early on Saturday. In race 1 at Caulfield, all the cash was for Plucky Belle but it was nabbed in the closing stages by And Roc...