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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...

Godolphin's Kentucky Derby hope Alpha has made a winning start to his campaign with victory in the Count Fleet, a traditional starting point for Triple Crown contenders at the Aqueduct.It was the f...

Every BMW Hong Kong Derby presents the clash of speed, class and stamina and John Size-trained  Luger  possesses enough of at least two of those qualities to take out today's renewal of the 2,000m...

The Jockey Club may have as many as five foreign horses contesting the three Cathay Pacific International Trial events next month with four invitations having already been issued. The Sprint Trial ...

The US Triple Crown is alive with Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another edging Bodemeister to win the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday (Sunday AEST).I'll Have Another charged down the home...

This is the final month of our trip back through the history of the past 20 or so years in this series. I left you last month with the promise that we'd pick up where we left off. So where exactl...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get yourself a nice little Christmas present of a winning system and head into the New Year all bright and smiling in the knowledge that profits would be coming yo...