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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...

Gai Waterhouse is hoping she can qualify Older Than Time for the Melbourne Cup by getting her into a win or a placing in Sat's 3200m Sydney Cup. Gai says: 'If she can run a place in a race like thi...

Queensland's most promising sprinter Chakvetadze is unlikely to earn a chance at Group One glory until next year after being ruled out of the spring.The Toowoomba mare earned a shot at this year's ...

Queensland's most promising sprinter Chakvetadze is unlikely to earn a chance at Group One glory until next year after being ruled out of the spring.The Toowoomba mare earned a shot at this year's ...

A change of luck with the barrier draw has trainer Liam Birchley supremely confident his Magic Millions Classic drought is about to end with unbeaten filly Paprika.Paprika, one of three Birchley-tr...

The owners of talented colt State Of Wealth are daring to dream of the Group One Caulfield Guineas in October following the three-year-old's impressive victory at Eagle Farm.State Of Wealth made up...

In this article our contributors E.J. Minnis and Roman Koz discuss the ins and outs of Betfair, the UK betting exchange with plans to operate in Australia and, naturally, creating concern among ra...