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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...

Are we planning for 1998 already? Afraid so. Bit of a shock, yes? Some of you will not need the ensuing words of advice. Congratulations. To the others I say: ignore the advice at your peril! D...

Are we planning for 1998 already? Afraid so. Bit of a shock, yes? Some of you will not need the ensuing words of advice. Congratulations. To the others I say: ignore the advice at your peril! D...

Are we planning for 1998 already? Afraid so. Bit of a shock, yes? Some of you will not need the ensuing words of advice. Congratulations. To the others I say: ignore the advice at your peril! D...

Are we planning for 1998 already? Afraid so. Bit of a shock, yes? Some of you will not need the ensuing words of advice. Congratulations. To the others I say: ignore the advice at your peril! D...

Twenty-five? Why not fifty?" I asked. "Because it's a good number," came the reply. I would be satisfied with just one good idea on how to improve one's betting this coming year, but the Editor s...

The past few years have seen many changes to racing. It seems that hardly a month goes by without further ones being introduced in one form or another. Last year saw changes made to the structur...