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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...

They say that statistics can be made to prove anything. This might be true in some walks of life, but in racing the statistics drawn up over many years and tens of thousands of races can prove a d...

It's understandable that Mark Kavanagh is playing down his chances with December Draw in Saturday's $2.5 million BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m).The big-race specialist has saddled up the event's two sho...

There are those who swear by the old maxim that the way to stay in front is to place your horses in the worst company and yourself in the best. Others, and they are punters, are heard to argue th...

There are those who swear by the old maxim that the way to stay in front is to place your horses in the worst company and yourself in the best. Others, and they are punters, are heard to argue th...

There are those who swear by the old maxim that the way to stay in front is to place your horses in the worst company and yourself in the best. Others, and they are punters, are heard to argue th...

Injured Jockey Jason Holder has set himself a goal to be back riding in races by the start of the new season.The 32-year-old suffered a fractured skull and cheekbone and was in a coma for two days ...