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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...

An AJC Australian Oaks nomination instead of an Adelaide campaign goes on the line for Cool Flyer when the bargain-buy filly races at Randwick on Wednesday.Cool Flyer, purchased for $5000 as a year...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...

In the second part of his series on money management Denton Jardine takes a look at how you can use progression method to boost profits on overlays. There are many who swear that staking plans ar...

A refreshed Douglas Whyte is back from suspension and thrust into the hot seat in today's Jockey Challenge at Sha Tin, and might well have it put to bed before the meeting is half over. Oddsmakers ...

Super Saturday looms as the crisp easily-downed 'first beer' in what might just prove to be the longest of long weekends. These three days of supposed rest kick off with the timeless Newmarket Hand...

I have yet to meet the perfect punter. Or maybe I have and didn't realise I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a genius. I guess there are perfect punters around. It's just that I never see...