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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...

Tests later this week will decide the future of dual Group One winner Rangirangdoo.Rangirangdoo snatched a thrilling George Ryder Stakes win at Rosehill on Saturday but celebrations were cut short ...

MOONEE VALLEY Acceptances on Saturday 13th February, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.10 INGLI...

In this article, regular contributor Philip Roy takes a look at the best autumn carnival prospects from some of the leading stables in Sydney and Melbourne, and tries to pinpoint those horses that...

WIMMERA@ARARAT Acceptances on Monday 31st May, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 3m 800m-400m; True Position Remainder--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-11.3...

The one constant thing that makes racing continue is the hard, cold fact that most punters lose. They might not die broke, as the old saying suggests, but they don't die rich. I would proffer th...

The one constant thing that makes racing continue is the hard, cold fact that most punters lose. They might not die broke, as the old saying suggests, but they don't die rich. I would proffer th...