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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 didn't take Richard Gibson long to get a good tune out of recent stable acquisition  Take To The Limit  and the five-year-old looks placed to run boldly again despite a grade rise in the Hong K...

Spring carnival riches await promising filly Sweet Ella who surprised trainer Greg Eurell with the ease of her win at Sandown on Wednesday.The two-year-old daughter of Niello was coming off an easy...

Alcopop's meteoric rise to Melbourne Cup contender has gone to another level after his win in the Group Two Herbert Power Handicap.Adelaide trainer Jake Stephens feared the five-year-old may have b...

Coming from Victoria, I originally found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about when the Quadrella (Quaddie) was introduced by TAB Ltd into New South Wales. Surfing some of the racing ...

Coming from Victoria, I originally found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about when the Quadrella (Quaddie) was introduced by TAB Ltd into New South Wales. Surfing some of the racing ...

Coming from Victoria, I originally found it hard to understand what all the fuss was about when the Quadrella (Quaddie) was introduced by TAB Ltd into New South Wales. Surfing some of the racing ...