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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...

Internationally experienced jockey Noel Callow will be a surprise visitor to Queanbeyan on Monday thanks to a long time friendship with Joe Cleary and his father, Golden Slipper winning trainer Fra...

Paul Simon found fifty ways, at least, to lose his lover. I suppose that there must be at least 500 ways to lose your money and, so far as the racetrack is concerned, we can probably double that w...

Paul Simon found fifty ways, at least, to lose his lover. I suppose that there must be at least 500 ways to lose your money and, so far as the racetrack is concerned, we can probably double that w...

As I planned this three page article, the news began to break about the equine influenza scare. I am a great believer in something I once heard the comedian Woody Allen say: “90 per cent of the th...

As I planned this three page article, the news began to break about the equine influenza scare. I am a great believer in something I once heard the comedian Woody Allen say: “90 per cent of the th...