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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...

A high temperature means flying filly Combat Kitty will miss Saturday's Randwick meeting but trainer Matthew Smith is still confident she can bounce back in time to cement a Magic Millions start.An...

Injury troubles continue for veteran sprinter Hay List...

Apprentice Nathan Berry has been taken to hospital for precautionary X-rays after taking a tumble from Light Horseman at Randwick on a day when senior ride Nash Rawiller also found himself in the w...

It would be nice to think that we had real, old-time newspaper wars in Australia, but the reality is that most papers are all owned in the same interests and any competition is something of an acc...

There are thousands of punters around Australia who would like to play their own individual systems - but lack the information required to check back on past results to ascertain if what they have...

Knowing when to “draw the line” in the number of combinations is a key factor in successful betting on trifectas. Most punters have only a limited amount of money to spend. In a way, this is a ...