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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...

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN.I'm consolidating what we know and what we have seen/can see at present, in regard to the upcoming carnivals. I should be able to put it on here within a day or two...

AN INJURY set-back for Victoria Derby winner Lion Tamer has thrust his emerging stablemate We Can Say It Now into Melbourne's autumn carnival spotlight, with the filly now being aimed at the $1 mil...

Racing Victoria is investigating media reports that Damien Oliver is not the only jockey who has placed an illegal bet. RV Integrity General Manager Dayle Brown told TVN that "other investigations ...

GLAMOUR New Zealand filly We Can Say It Now is on track to launch her Cadbury Guineas charge at Te Rapa on Saturday week, reports Bart Sinclair in the Courier-Mail.His report says: We Can Say It No...

The Melbourne Cup- Some Thoughts.We'll all have a lash at the Cup. Capital letter for that one. It's THE Cup, after all. The one everyone wants to win.And the one we punters all have to try our luc...

Of Course They Can! Jockeys and Strikes.Jockeys are in essence ruled by racing clubs and their appointed stewards. These people can take away their livelihood. Sometimes it's deserved but usually i...