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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...

Connections of mudlarks are licking their lips as Brisbane's Big Wet goes on and on...One of them is Mornington trainer Peter White, who is keen for the Doomben 10,000 meeting to go ahead on a heav...

Sydney Cup entry Maximus Gladiator needs to win emphatically at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to have any chance of making it to the Group One staying test."If he happened to come out and win by ten le...

Canterbury will need to be at the peak of its unrivalled recuperative powers on Wednesday for promising galloper Ready Steady Vetti to confirm a strong off-season three-year-old formline.The smalle...

To formulate a worthwhile system involves adhering to some basic principles based around form, fitness ,distance , class and track conditions. The following rules are tough and should address these...

To formulate a worthwhile system involves adhering to some basic principles based around form, fitness ,distance , class and track conditions. The following rules are tough and should address these...

A lot of punters steer clear of most winter racing, having a rule to bet only when the track is rated good or better but, in doing so, I believe they miss many opportunities to back winners at pri...