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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...

People You MeetI just took a few minutes off at the races this afternoon to put this up and share it with you.I always seek out interesting people to talk with. So many punters at the racetrack hav...

Racetrack attendances - or lack of them - continue to nag away at the sport's image and future. Veteran scribbler Max Presnell is among the worried racing diehards. In his SMH column, Max opines: '...

PEOPLE AND THEIR WAYSI'm making this a regular series, so here's the first. Every so often we'll drop one into our meetings.This one concerns a fellow I shared a bus ride with. I usually leave my c...

Great to see popular Peter Snowden leading the national winners' tally. He's secured the trainers' premiership with 227.5 winners. PS says: 'It has been an unbelievable effort from a lot of good pe...

Fighting words from under-siege Damien Oliver after his brilliant winning ride on Commanding Jewel in the Grp 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield. Ollie told the crowd: "I'd like to thank Leon Corstens...

Perth's fairytale galloper King Kool Kat completed an unbeaten winter campaign in style when he scored a brilliant win in the $130,000 Listed Hannan's Handicap (1400m) at Kalgoorlie on Wednesday, r...