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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...

áEconomy and Another Day."There's always another day". Nowhere is this more true than in our pursuit of the racing dollar.Tomorrow, June 6, at least two of the major meetings will be held on bottom...

When the big races come around - in the city or the country -  there’s none better for finding the winners than PPD Club tipster Brian Blackwell - and the master-blaster was in top form again on...

Anyone who has tried to make sense of trackwork times in Australia will know for a fact how difficult it is to relate trackwork gallops to winning performances. Sometimes you can take a 'fastest...

The "Big Man" Bruce McLachlan will forever be remembered for his quick wit, but it was in his profession as a racehorse trainer that he earned his place among the greatest.McLachlan, who recently t...