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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...

It's easy these days to convince yourself that by looking at video replays and turn-and-finish photoform you can, suddenly, transform yourself into a winning punter. Oh that it were that easy! To...

Neil Davis is one of NZ’s leading form analysts. He runs the www.formpro.co.nz website. If you want to bet like a professional then I strongly suggest you use this staking plan. If you want to ...

Exclusive Book Extract Susan Bain is one of America’s leading female punters. She and her husband Ed Bain ( www.edbain.com ) devised the highly successful 4x30 formula, using trainer stats to s...

Neil Davis is one of NZ’s leading form analysts. He runs the www.formpro.co.nz website. If you want to bet like a professional then I strongly suggest you use this staking plan. If you want to ...

Neil Davis is one of NZ’s leading form analysts. He runs the www.formpro.co.nz website. If you want to bet like a professional then I strongly suggest you use this staking plan. If you want to ...

Bookmakers have always been synonymous with horse racing. They are as old as the industry itself. Their importance to the horse racing product of this country cannot be understated. In monetary ...