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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...

The AAMI Victoria Derby barrier draw did little the dent Robbie Laing’s confidence regarding Polanski’s chances in the $1.5 million event at Flemington this Saturday, reports Racing Victoria. The ...

A CASH-STRAPPED NSW racing industry no longer has a safety net. For years the thoroughbred regulator in this state, Racing NSW, has waged a bitter battle with corporate bookmakers and betting excha...

In this exclusive interview, Tasmanian-based contributor Steve Wood interviews James Quinn, regarded as one of the great modern-day handicappers in the world. Quinn - America's equivalent of Austr...

When it comes to horseracing, most of us have been searching for a Holy Grail of sorts. That special system or approach that will lift us to the level we wish to attain. Some of us have found w...