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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...

Newport has been on his best behaviour for jockey Hugh Bowman who is confident the grey can end his roller-coaster autumn carnival on a high in the Sydney Cup.The Paul Perry-trained Newport showed ...

Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune heads a quality list of 12 nominations in Saturday’s Group 2 Back To Caulfield P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. Currently rated the $6.50 favou...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

Have today’s astute form analysts become a little too smart for their own good? I think so. In terms of acquiring frequent value, they have become victims of their own knowledge. Databases, vid...

There I was at Rosehill, half-way through the meeting and down to my last couple of dollars. Nothing unusual, because most of us have experienced the feeling. To make matters worse I'd lost my fo...