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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...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...

Patience is Always a VirtueI had just finished writing a page for the next magazine and a horrifying thought struck me:"By the time some people read this they'll have lost a great deal of money fol...

Gold Coast three-year-old Biggles burst into Magic Millions Guineas contention after claiming the Listed Gold Edition Plate on protest at Eagle Farm.The Desleigh Forster-trained Easy Running ($5.50...

Big Time BettingWhen I was doing something entirely different, and I was oh so many years younger, I worked with a chap whose wife always backed the winner of the Melbourne Cup.She had to. She alwa...

I’ve lost count of the number of times people have asked me how to isolate “easy” races on which to bet. The quick answer most expect is for me to tell them to bet in races with only a handful of ...

James McDonald described the improvement of It's A Dundeel as scary following his barrier trial win at Royal Randwick on Monday, reports Racing Network.  It's A Dundeel settled midfield in the 12...