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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...

Racing, like most sports, can be a game of inches. Just ask Joshua Parr.The young jockey was left "shattered" at Randwick two weeks ago when his mount Skilled went down by only a short half-head in...

As one of the country's leading jockeys Corey Brown is used to pressure but he admits the intensity surrounding his Cox Plate ride on Shoot Out is something else.Brown is on the third favourite onl...

Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a real bash at the place side of things and never got a...

Don't talk to me about place betting," a pal bemoaned recently. "Been there, done that. Burned!" Yes, there are lots of punters who've had a real bash at the place side of things and never got a...

  Betting should be enjoyable,” says UK professional punter Alan Potts, but he’s quick to add that it can be “a miserable experience if you are losing and have no idea when the next winner will a...

The shortest way home is always on or near the inside rail. Well, that's technically true, as we all know, but we also know that many times it doesn't find you the winner of a race. Especially whe...