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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...

Opie Bosson had the benefit of four-time Cox Plate-winning rider Brent Thomson's expertise at Moonee Valley ahead of perhaps the most important ride of his career on equal favourite Princess Coup i...

SOMETIMES IT'S BEST TO STAY AWAY.Sandown last Saturday was a bog. OK, well, it looked like one and it smelt like one on the telly.You know what they say: if it looks like a trap, and it smells like...

If we assume, as many punters do, that inside gates are the best, doesn't it follow that we should look very carefully indeed at good-form horses racing from these barriers? Let's say that we hav...

The Magic Man, Joao Moreira is back at Sha Tin this afternoon and trainer Danny Shum Chap-shing has given him a great chance to take the day's trophy race with the very genuine  Hei Hei Posh  i...

The likelihood of a soft tempo and a replay of the way the Hong Kong Derby was run gives the John Size-trained Fay Fay his chance this afternoon to repel the foreign challenge in the Group One Aude...

Last week I listed 23 horses who are forming my "Generic Ratings" list and at the end of the blog I asked you to rate them into your order. It is important to realize the order is arbitrary at this...