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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...

DARREN Weir knew former French mare  Telopea  would run well on her Australian debut, but he didn’t expect her to demolish her rivals in the Maiden Plate at Bendigo.   Weir said  Telopea ...

There is much to be said in  favour of level-stakes betting and more still to be said for a sensible 'graduated' increase of stakes during a winning streak. Level stakes, of course, can be deadl...

There is much to be said in  favour of level-stakes betting and more still to be said for a sensible 'graduated' increase of stakes during a winning streak. Level stakes, of course, can be deadl...

There is much to be said in  favour of level-stakes betting and more still to be said for a sensible 'graduated' increase of stakes during a winning streak. Level stakes, of course, can be deadl...

Signs. Vital signs. Stay alive or die on the punt. We’re looking at some of the most vital signs this month and next. In any business, certain fundamentals cannot be ignored. We’ve all seen signs ...

I could easily provide you with fifty-two ways of winning, one for each week of the year, and some of them would win on some weeks. Others would fly high on other occasions, probably on the weeks ...