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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...

That Jason Coyle mystery deepens...Seems there was no blow-up with tycoon owner Nathan Tinkler or co-trainer John Thompson before JC quit the Patinack top-trainer nest. In fact, JC is all love-and-...

CAULFIELD Acceptances on Wednesday 13th October, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.35 PURA LIGH...

When I asked a friend of mine which blunder he considered the worst a punter could make, he answered, tongue-in-cheek: "Backing a loser, that's the worst blunder I know!" In a way, his flippant ...

One of the questions that was raised in the May 2005 issue of PPM was from a Mr Terry Burns, and it proved too big for Ask the Optimist. After some considerable discussion with Brian, we decided...