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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...

A loser with a smile on his face...That was Mark Kavanagh after the Caulfield meeting. The popular trainer left the track without a winner but couldn't keep the grin from showing. He says: 'II have...

When Bootlegging won at 66/1 at Randwick in late August, subscribers to the PPD Club were screaming for joy. The BIG winner had been handed out as a fantastic overlay selection by the Club's i...

Paradise is Darwin in July. As you all know I was off last week for a few days visiting my daughter, with my partner Susie, and what a great break it was. After arriving on the red eye special into...

Super Saturday looms as the crisp easily-downed 'first beer' in what might just prove to be the longest of long weekends. These three days of supposed rest kick off with the timeless Newmarket Hand...

ROSEHILL   RACE ONE Favourite backers had little to concern themselves about after Zumbelina scored handsomely. Although drifting from $1.50 out to $1.75 come start time, she still held 66...

The question most fellow punters ask me is to explain my approach to form and betting. Quite naturally, they want to know what the secret is to making a profit at the races. Who doesn't? By th...