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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...

Apprentice Rachael Murray hopes to continue her blazing form when she partners Nip of Time in the Schweppes Handicap (1200m) at Canterbury Park this Wednesday, reports Racing NSW. Murray, 25, won...

A pleasing trial in Tasmania on Tuesday morning has cult figure  The Cleaner  on track for his cameo appearance in Melbourne this autumn, reports racing.com. The crowd favourite, who was one ...

In my younger days, I once worked on a building site in England. I was doing the time-honoured 'Aussie boy goes back to the Old Dart' routine (and I had the time of my life). Anyway, the foreman s...

Each week in Australia, punters go on a betting frenzy with trifecta betting. It is a highly popular form of betting, and yet it's the one that most punters don't really understand. Professionals...

Each week in Australia, punters go on a betting frenzy with trifecta betting. It is a highly popular form of betting, and yet it's the one that most punters don't really understand. Professionals...

Each week in Australia, punters go on a betting frenzy with trifecta betting. It is a highly popular form of betting, and yet it's the one that most punters don't really understand. Professionals...