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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...

In this article our computer expert Neale Yardley investigates probabilities and dispels some common misconceptions many punters have about the so-called law of averages. During one of my recent ...

This is the sixth article in our series which brings you the views, ideas and angles from some of the foremost racing experts around the world. In this article, the US ‘legend’ James Quinn discuss...

This is the sixth article in our series which brings you the views, ideas and angles from some of the foremost racing experts around the world. In this article, the US ‘legend’ James Quinn discuss...

In this special article, two Practical Punting experts argue the 'yes' and ‘no’ case for exotic betting. They debate whether those quinellas, doubles, trifectas, and quadrellas are really worth al...

In this special article, two Practical Punting experts argue the 'yes' and ‘no’ case for exotic betting. They debate whether those quinellas, doubles, trifectas, and quadrellas are really worth al...

In this special article, two Practical Punting experts argue the 'yes' and ‘no’ case for exotic betting. They debate whether those quinellas, doubles, trifectas, and quadrellas are really worth al...