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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...

Nom Du Jeu and Red Ruler, who provided a Kiwi quinella in last year's AJC Australian Derby, are standout New Zealand nominations for the $2.25 million BMW."We have so far received six entries for t...

Nom Du Jeu and Red Ruler, who provided a Kiwi quinella in last year's AJC Australian Derby, are standout New Zealand nominations for the $2.25 million BMW."We have so far received six entries for t...

New Zealand stayer Mr Tipsy will be out to prove he is more than just a wet track specialist when he makes his Sydney return in the Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill.The Sydney Cup placegetter arriv...

New Zealand stayer Mr Tipsy will be out to prove he is more than just a wet track specialist when he makes his Sydney return in the Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill.The Sydney Cup placegetter arriv...

New Zealand stayer Mr Tipsy will be out to prove he is more than just a wet track specialist when he makes his Sydney return in the Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill.The Sydney Cup placegetter arriv...

New Zealand stayer Mr Tipsy will be out to prove he is more than just a wet track specialist when he makes his Sydney return in the Kingston Town Stakes at Rosehill.The Sydney Cup placegetter arriv...