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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...

His stable name is God but trainer Pat Webster believes Thankgodyou'rehere may need some divine intervention to win the Minister's Cup at the Gold Coast.Thankgodyou'rehere's hopes in Saturday's 130...

Company director Wayne Sayers hopes his decision to send former Victorian Sons Of God to trainer Rob Heathcote will be further vindicated at next month's Magic Millions carnival at the Gold Coast.S...

Every horse eventually finds its own level and that could be the case with Alan Bailey's gritty Gold Coast performer Frozone.Bailey fears the handicapper may have caught up with Frozone who will ca...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...

On these pages I try to bring to your attention the aspects of racing which the average punter might overlook to his detriment, and those which he can bring to bear on his betting in order to make...