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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...

Punters' cheers turned to wails after Sydney pin-up Manawanui won then lost the Hobartville Stakes on Saturday after a rough-house final 100 metres in the Group Two race.After a successful protest ...

I know the official handicappers do their best to even up the chances of all runners in all fields but I would be surprised if the handicapper for the 2010 Epsom Handicap would be totally happy wit...

In just over 40 years on the punt I have read many articles about the flamboyant punters of the past. Felipe Ysmael and Eddie Birchley, aka The Fireman, are two that come to mind immediately in ...

As you all know I have been tinkering with what I call my Pensioner Plan where I am attempting to develop a system that will select a sensible number of collects simply based on a wildcat approach ...

What a whirlwind fortnight for the Target Betting experiment. What I thought would take a bit longer, that is, a really bad run, descended upon us like a swarm of locusts. After a completely disast...

What a whirlwind fortnight for the Target Betting experiment. What I thought would take a bit longer, that is, a really bad run, descended upon us like a swarm of locusts. After a completely disast...