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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...

I wish I could avoid all races with more than a dozen starters.The recent Doncaster was a case in point. Nineteen of the beasts and probably fourteen arguable chances. The favourite got buried earl...

Craig Newitt says the Mick Price-trained Heart of Dreams' love of a "dogfight" will go a long way towards giving the jockey his third Australian Cup win at Flemington.Newitt, who sprung an upset on...

If you're one of those punters who loves to bet for a place, then you would qualify as the type of 'gambler' who wants to receive regular collects. Place betting ensures that sensible punters get ...

If you're one of those punters who loves to bet for a place, then you would qualify as the type of 'gambler' who wants to receive regular collects. Place betting ensures that sensible punters get ...

If you're one of those punters who loves to bet for a place, then you would qualify as the type of 'gambler' who wants to receive regular collects. Place betting ensures that sensible punters get ...

Australians wagered a record amount on the Melbourne Cup, all thanks to the popularity of the Cups King Bart Cummings and his horse, So You Think. So You Think ran the shortest Melbourne Cup fav...