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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...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it...Looks like we're in for more madness at the top of the officialdom tree and this time it's the Melbourne Cup involved. The Age says the Cup could be in for its big...

Slash the field to one-third, and go from there! That's the crux of the system I'm about to talk about. It's some 30 to 40 years old, but it remains a steady winner-getter. Why? Because it conc...

To formulate a worthwhile system involves adhering to some basic principles based around form, fitness ,distance , class and track conditions. The following rules are tough and should address these...

To formulate a worthwhile system involves adhering to some basic principles based around form, fitness ,distance , class and track conditions. The following rules are tough and should address these...

Let's hope it's better than the new whip rules! The controversial ratings-based handicapping system is to be replaced in NSW from October 1 with a system officials say will be truly merit-based. Th...

Most punters have, at one time or another, developed a system they hoped would be the mother of all systems, however, what looked so promising generally became so bad it was eventually thrown into...