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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 my joys is to open a formguide and just simply start "doin' the form. To some people I know this an unbelievable waste of time yet the same people will spend all day on a golf course and ext...

One of my joys is to open a formguide and just simply start "doin' the form. To some people I know this an unbelievable waste of time yet the same people will spend all day on a golf course and ext...

Trainer Tony Gollan is looking forward to the clash of talented stablemates Falvelina and Listen Son at Doomben.The pair will meet in Saturday's Trident Handicap (1200m) which Gollan will use as a ...

In the racing world there are some people whose opinions you respect without question and one such person, in my opinion, is Geoffrey Hutson. I first met Geoffrey via an Internet forum and was im...

In the past two issues I have written about my findings relevant to horseracing websites in, firstly, Western Australia ( perthturftalk.com ,  kozform.com, puntperth.com and westozracing.com )  i...

A punters I think we spend an awful lot of time dreaming up new ways to win, or perhaps just new ways to lose! Punters are, in the main, optimists and dreamers and receptive to new ideas, advice a...