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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...

How do experts around the world look on the business of betting? In this special article, Denton Jardine takes a look at the writings of some eminent international authorities. This is how they go...

Analysis, patience, insight . . . I think these three qualities sum up the successful punter who bets on greyhounds. You need all three if you are to assure yourself of success over, say, a 12-mon...

Nick Mordin is an English racing journalist who decided-in the racing year 1991-92 to test out his betting ideas as a professional punter. He ended up proving that it is possible to make a living ...

Analysis, patience, insight . . . I think these three qualities sum up the successful punter who bets on greyhounds. You need all three if you are to assure yourself of success over, say, a 12-mon...

A few months ago I mentioned a project I had in the pipeline I called "Generic Ratings" where it was my intention to grade the better class horses according to my interpretation of their relative a...

Philip Alexander, one of Britain's best-known racing writers, reveals the winning secrets of the great punter Phil Bull, founder of the Timeform empire. This is Part One of a series. Whatever cri...