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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...

She's in but out...Superstar Black Caviar has stifled betting on Saturday's Grp 2 Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley. The unbeaten mare who is shooting for win number 15 will face just four rivals i...

Colorful owner John Singleton reckons his 'ratings man' has trimmed the Golden Slipper down to 5 key prospects - and they include his own 2YO More Strawberries. Singo says: 'The guy who does our ra...

This month we will continue our examination of the relationship between starting price (SP) and 'true' odds. By examining nearly 200,000 starters during the two year period August 1, 1988 to July...

Novelty markets the go...TAB Sportsbet has framed a number of special markets surrounding the appearance of Black Caviar in the C F Orr Stakes on Saturday.First up is a market on the winning margin...

It seems daunting, doesn't it, when you look at a race programme of eight or nine races? You could be excused for shrinking from the task of attempting to unravel such a big programme of races, po...

It seems daunting, doesn't it, when you look at a race programme of eight or nine races? You could be excused for shrinking from the task of attempting to unravel such a big programme of races, po...