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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...

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...

Jamie Edwards has a long range Spring Carnival plan with progressive galloper  Sertorius . “The owners are very keen to run him in the Caulfield Cup so I’m very mindful of not asking him to do too...

Sometimes it can pay off to keep some simple, but clever, betting ideas in our head. Snippets mainly, but based on logic and which can be used to formulate neat plans for selecting and staking. I'...

Promising stayer Fieldmaster will take another step towards better races over summer and a possible tilt at the Mornington Cup in February when he tackles the Peter Moody Handicap at Caulfield on W...

DARLEY head trainer Peter Snowden and race jockey Kerrin McEvoy declared champion colt Sepoy would be at his top form for Friday night's group 1 Manikato Stakes after another impressive workout at ...

áMaking Money at the Races (4)I can't over-emphasise the importance of a plan, a method, a logical approach to Racing Success.In the "olden dayes" there were reckless schemes that sometimes came of...