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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...

In this special two-part series, we publish extracts from a new book on greyhound handicapping called Spots ‘N’ Blots by Peter Manti, an American form analyst. The second part of the extracts will...

In this special two-part series, we publish extracts from a new book on greyhound handicapping called Spots ‘N’ Blots by Peter Manti, an American form analyst. The second part of the extracts will...

Centennial Park may have shaded star sprinter Hay List in an exhibition gallop recently but trainer David Payne is realistic about the honest campaigner's first-up chances.Centennial Park faces Syd...

One of the earliest investigations I carried out as a young and enthusiastic racing researcher concerned horses that had won their last start. The exercise involved more than 2000 instances where...

In the last two parts of this series, I’ve taken you through 26 areas which pinpoint ways you can give your betting an extra edge, enabling you to hit top gear. This third and final article in the...

TRY THIS FOR FUN.But not for money! Let's just watch and learn (maybe) something useful.Certain well-fancied and spruiked horses can try the patience of a saint.Every week you see one of their ilk ...