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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...

MELBOURNE Cup emergencies are not on the radar of the Victoria Racing Club, repoerts Racing Network. While emergencies have successfully worked with the Caulfield Cup - last week all four emerg...

My friend and colleague Denton Jardine has been unwell of late and has asked me to provide the final part of his series on systems and form defects. This is a subject which Denton and myself have...

There were 71 race meetings held across Australia last week with 4,512 horses competing in 499 races for a total prize money purse of $46,607,500 .

No analysis of harness-racing could begin without a close look at the impact of the barrier draw. There are two aspects of harness-racing which are crucial - one is the draw, the other is the st...

No analysis of harness-racing could begin without a close look at the impact of the barrier draw. There are two aspects of harness-racing which are crucial - one is the draw, the other is the st...

We all know that betting on horseracing is all about decision-making. We make hundreds of decisions each time we look at a formguide. Just think of a 16 horse race. If you look at every horse and...