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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...

Darren Beadman put a week of controversy behind him to rack up a Hong Kong personal best of four winners on Saturday's Sha Tin program.Beadman came under fire from the local media and was quizzed b...

Darren Beadman put a week of controversy behind him to rack up a Hong Kong personal best of four winners on Saturday's Sha Tin program.Beadman came under fire from the local media and was quizzed b...

How do you overcome a crisis of lack of confidence? It happens to all sorts of people in all avenues of life. Businessmen face it so do salesmen, so do musicians and painters, writers, students. ...

Kiwi journalist Neil Davis is regarded as one of New Zealand’s leading “speed” analysts. In this special article he gives us a special NZ angle on using sectional times. Neil has been a punter for...

The "poor old punter" faces myriad pitfalls as he goes about the business of betting on racehorses. Many of them he falls into time and again. It's all very well for us pundits to say "don't do t...

Thousands of punters dream of giving up their jobs to become 'professional punters' and yet only a handful make the dream come true. Why? The simple fact is that only a few amongst millions have...