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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...

It's easy these days to convince yourself that by looking at video replays and turn-and-finish photoform you can, suddenly, transform yourself into a winning punter. Oh that it were that easy! To...

Early betting action on Saturday's big races (from TAB Sportsbet)RANDWICKT.J. SMITH STAKESMaster Of Design $71 - $51 ($500 @ $71, $500 @ $61,$1500 @ $15 & $500 @ $13 place only) SIRES PRODUCE All T...

Emerging chaser Phaze Action heads the early betting for Tuesday's $100,000 Brierly Steeplechase (3450m) on the opening day of the Warrnambool Carnival. TAB Sportsbet has Phaze Action $3.80 fav jus...

These days the serious punter yearns for information and on first glance in the newspapers on the east coast you'd think Perth racing barely exists. Coverage is very basic with, at times, not even...

Those stupid whip rules are bringing more bad headlines for racing...Now industrial action could loom because of the whopping $2000 fine smacked on Michael Rodd for using the whip too much to get F...

There are those who claim they never bet on midweek races. I doubt if there are many professionals among their ranks. Most of the pro's I know like nothing better than to bet on the city and provi...