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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...

Gai Waterhouse has informed Racing Victoria stewards that The Offer won't be among the final acceptances for the Melbourne Cup. Waterhouse spoke with chief steward Terry Bailey on Tuesday morning...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

What makes up a good system? Well, the answer is any set of rules that actually works and comes up with winners at profitable odds! Seriously, though, this is something a lot of people have thoug...

New Zealand weight-for-age star Jimmy Choux has arrived in top order for the Group One Cox Plate and will have his first look at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning.Trainer John Bary said the four-yea...

Jockey Greg Childs has paid tribute to champion mare Sunline who has been put down after losing her long battle with laminitis, a disease affecting the hooves.Childs said it was a sad day for racin...