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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...

Toowoomba trainer Michael Flanigan is growing in confidence that his talented Choistar can become the first Queensland two-year-old in 44 years to win the Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick.Cho...

Artlee, the runaway winner of the Country Championship final at Royal Randwick, will resume from a short break in the Listed $140,000 Luskin Star Stakes (1300m) at Scone’s standalone Saturday meet...

What can we learn from history? According to Henry Ford, very little. But I am convinced that old Henry, while he might have known a thing or two about the internal combustion engine, knew very li...

Each year we punters set out on a fresh odyssey. It's our search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most punters never find it. Much the same odyssey is undertaken each year, by peop...

Each year we punters set out on a fresh odyssey. It's our search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most punters never find it. Much the same odyssey is undertaken each year, by peop...