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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...

Months of planning paid big dividends at Ipswich when Sydney sprinter Adnocon scored back-to-back wins in the $175,000 Eye Liner Stakes.Having his first start in four months, Adnocon defined a bett...

Queensland handicappers would have to be generous towards Ironstein to entice trainer Gerald Ryan to run him at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday but stablemate Adnocon is a definite for the meeting.I...

Gerald Ryan had the option of keeping Adnocon in Queensland for one more race but decided to bring the in-form runner home to Sydney to start in Saturday's Listed Winter Stakes.Adnocon has been in ...