Love Is Blind Horse

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...

GONE FISHINGThere are days, even weeks, when anyone on his own - unless he's a pro- is hopelessly out of his depth.Some punters don't realise this, but it IS so.We do our best by offering the profe...

No sooner has the dust settled on Kyneton Cup day than I find myself puffing and panting for the formguides for the VRC Oaks and dutifully do the required form work that night. Is there a picture...

Some 50 years ago, the name 'R.W. Wood' could be found on numerous racing books and booklets in Britain. He was perhaps the nation's best-known systems seller. Today, the publications that bore ...

Recently I decided to cull the collection of racing books and booklets I have scattered around my home, one of the reasons being that I was beginning to need training for a jumping career to hop o...

Luck. It's the second most famous four letter word in the world. Or is it the third, behind love and that other one. Whatever ... luck means everything to punters. Without luck we are usually los...

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...