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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...

Hobby trainer Jeffrey Caught hasn't given up on a Sydney trip for Falino despite the three-year-old's defeat at Eagle Farm.Falino, who scored a six-length win on debut at Doomben last month, finish...

Blue-blood fillies Celebrities Choice and Taste of Heaven generated much of the pre-race talk at Canterbury on Wednesday, but it was unheralded War Pass (USA) filly Hadiklaim that had them all co...

Mick Mair has some bad news for rival trainer Tony Noonan whose hopes of gaining a Stradbroke Handicap start with Ortensia could hinge on the filly winning Saturday's Group Two QTC Cup at Eagle Far...

Mick Mair has some bad news for rival trainer Tony Noonan whose hopes of gaining a Stradbroke Handicap start with Ortensia could hinge on the filly winning Saturday's Group Two QTC Cup at Eagle Far...

Mick Mair has some bad news for rival trainer Tony Noonan whose hopes of gaining a Stradbroke Handicap start with Ortensia could hinge on the filly winning Saturday's Group Two QTC Cup at Eagle Far...

Let’s commence with some of the aspects of form that need regular revisiting. Form is a pretty general term, but we are all on common ground because every punter knows what to expect when we start...