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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...

JUST THE FACTS M'AM, JUST THE FACTSAs I wrote on the intro, George just wanted the facts. No embellishment.That suits me fine today because I want to make just one point which might make you some e...

Regulars of this site will soon realize I am not a big fan of 2yo racing especially with the amount of money thrown at races like the Golden Slipper in NSW, the Blue Diamond in Victoria and the Mag...

Regulars of this site will soon realize I am not a big fan of 2yo racing especially with the amount of money thrown at races like the Golden Slipper in NSW, the Blue Diamond in Victoria and the Mag...

Not a raceday goes by without one or more horses turning in what we call 'form reversals' and many times these abrupt changes in form are shockers. There seems to be absolutely no reason for the i...

Okay gang, it’s quiz time again. All I want you to do is to read the question . . . Do not let your eyes go forward to the next paragraph and think about the answer to today’s quiz question before...

George ‘Barker’ Bellfield reviews Bill McBride’s new book For some time now, America's No 1 greyhound racing-handicapping authority, Bill McBride, has been writing the occasional feature articl...