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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...

One of the more frequent requests we receive here at Equestrian is from punters who have trouble allocating their available cash each week. I have written many times - so have other columnists - ...

One of the more frequent requests we receive here at Equestrian is from punters who have trouble allocating their available cash each week. I have written many times - so have other columnists - ...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

What can you say about quinellas? They are one of the oldest forms of betting there is. My earliest racing days were taken up with attempts to crack decent quinellas. I remember when I first star...

Trainer Bob Baffert is counting on talent to overcome a lack of experience when he sends early favourite Bodemeister out for the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby.Bodemeister was dazzling when he...