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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...

The Tatts W.S Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 weight-for-age championship thoroughbred. Held annually at Moonee Valley Racing club in Melbourne, it is one of the biggest races of the Spring Rac...

Euphoric Realm will be out to maintain his unbeaten record in Sunday's Betfair Handicap at Sandown.The four-year-old, by US stallion Proud Citizen, has been well placed by trainer Mick Price and is...

Euphoric Realm will be out to maintain his unbeaten record in Sunday's Betfair Handicap at Sandown.The four-year-old, by US stallion Proud Citizen, has been well placed by trainer Mick Price and is...

Will wew hit the Poms for six? British bookies say they're going to be slammed for a big payout if Australian sprinter Nicconi wins Tuesday night's Grp 1 King's Stand Stakes (1000m) at Royal Ascot....

Luckless when beaten as an odd-on favourite at his most recent start, Puissance De Lune (IRE) turned Wednesday's $250,000 Listed Jayco Bendigo Cup (2400m) into a one act affair, much to the delight...

I started off putting this article together as a sort of homage to the British form analyst and author Nick Mordin, but as I progressed through my research I realised that for a broader picture, a...