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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...

Sydney's best race caller, Mark Shean, knocking back the offer to replace Darren Flindell rings some alarm bells as far as the Jockey Club's aim of getting a "name" caller, repoerts the Racing Pos...

The thoroughbred industry will put its case to vaccinate horses against equine influenza (EI), in the face of strong opposition from government authorities, at a summit in Sydney on Thursday.Austra...

Things are changing so rapidly in the world of gambling, thanks to the boom in the Internet, that all the "old ways" of doing things need to be thrown out the window. Though whether the people wh...

Things are changing so rapidly in the world of gambling, thanks to the boom in the Internet, that all the "old ways" of doing things need to be thrown out the window. Though whether the people wh...

Things are changing so rapidly in the world of gambling, thanks to the boom in the Internet, that all the "old ways" of doing things need to be thrown out the window. Though whether the people wh...

There is less than a minute to go before the jump. What to do? Win bet? Exacta? Trifecta? How much on each? What's right? While the questions posed seem simple, they are problems that mathematic...