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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...

BYPASSING the Stradbroke might be the edge Varenna Miss needs to turn the tables on hot favourite Beaded in Saturday's Group 1 Tatt's Tiara, reports the Brisbane Courier-Mail.It says: That's the op...

Bit of a joke... Absolutelyawesome, likely fav for the Rosehill Guineas, may miss the final field of 16 because he's so far down the elimination order. A Kilmore maiden winner on debut, Absolutelya...

Don't miss the June issue of PRACTICAL PUNTING MONTHLY magazine with the mighty Takeover Target on the front cover. Inside you'll find top racing articles by Prentice Manetter, William 'Bad Bill' M...

Don't miss the upcoming August issue of Practical Punting Monthly magazine with trainer superstars Bart Cummings and Luca Cumani on the front cover...Read about the 'war of words' over 'value' betw...

Cruel luck...Kerrin McEvoy is likely to miss the spring carnival thanks to that horror race fall at Gosford on Wednesday. Latest news is that he's out for three or four months at the least and he'l...

Family tragedy...Damien Oliver will miss Sat's Flemington meeting. He's to remain in Perth with his mother who was seriously injured in a car accident earlier this week. She sustained multiple frac...