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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...

Audacious Spirit's Royal Sovereign Stakes performance confirmed Gillian Heinrich's opinion of the colt who will be out to go one better in Saturday's Hobartville Stakes.Heinrich sent Audacious Spir...

Shaun Dwyer knows a good filly when he sees one. In 2004, Dwyer trained flying three-year-old filly Regimental Gal to win the Group 1 Lightning Stakes-Australia Stakes double.It is for this reason ...

Here we go!PLAN A selections (the wildcat ones!)Moonee Valley 5-4-2-4-7-2-5-7Randwick 2-1-6-2-1-2-1-6Belmont 1-1-1-4-5-1-3-6Eagle Farm 8-4-12-1-9-6-4-13Morphettville 3-4-7-1-3-4-3-3It will be most ...

Here we go!PLAN A selections (the wildcat ones!)Moonee Valley 5-4-2-4-7-2-5-7Randwick 2-1-6-2-1-2-1-6Belmont 1-1-1-4-5-1-3-6Eagle Farm 8-4-12-1-9-6-4-13Morphettville 3-4-7-1-3-4-3-3It will be most ...

Should we change the way we think when it comes to analysing form? Are you, perhaps, approaching form from the wrong angle? Can you re-think what you are doing to produce a better result? These a...

You stroll to the teller's window at your local TAB agency, banknotes clutched in your hand. You are about to place $20 on a horse you have selected in a race at Randwick. You hope to win about a ...