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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...

Finding a race for promising filly Onethingatatime has been a challenge, and getting a start is another story altogether.The Catcher In The Rye filly runs in The Riverview Hotel Hcp (1150m) at Rand...

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed 'Horizontal' who thought he was a ...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

In just over 40 years on the punt I have read many articles about the flamboyant punters of the past. Felipe Ysmael and Eddie Birchley, aka The Fireman, are two that come to mind immediately in ...