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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...

Far too many punters shy away from favourites yet they offer the punter a better opportunity for profit making than the so called "value" horses. Value horses typically are 5/1 plus and for some pu...

Connections of Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort have knocked back another seven-figure offer for the rising three-year-old who will make his comeback next month ahead of his Group One C...

Connections of Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort have knocked back another seven-figure offer for the rising three-year-old who will make his comeback next month ahead of his Group One C...

PERILS OF EARLY BETTINGIt's become apparent to me over the past months that, more often than not, the top fluctuation in the final forty minutes of betting will belt the ears off the early prices.T...

Last month we had quite an extensive look at some of the online deals available to punters. It was on pages 18/19 and 20 of the August issue. One that I didn’t look at in any detail was Michael ...

Last month we had quite an extensive look at some of the online deals available to punters. It was on pages 18/19 and 20 of the August issue. One that I didn’t look at in any detail was Michael ...