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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...

Trainers Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra are looking to test lightly-raced mare Star Of Giselle as they wind her up for the better spring races.The four-year-old will have only her fifth race start...

Trifecta betting has been super popular for many years and its popularity continues to grow. But how do we bet on it to ensure we keep ahead of the game? As with other forms of betting, the trife...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get yourself a nice little Christmas present of a winning system and head into the New Year all bright and smiling in the knowledge that profits would be coming yo...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get yourself a nice little Christmas present of a winning system and head into the New Year all bright and smiling in the knowledge that profits would be coming yo...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get yourself a nice little Christmas present of a winning system and head into the New Year all bright and smiling in the knowledge that profits would be coming yo...

Michael Rodd reckons Crockett Stakes winner Kneeling is a genuine Thousand Guineas contender. She landed a big plunge in downing Peterr Moody's exciting filly Hallowell Belle. Rodd says: 'She's go...