Sixteen Straight Horse

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...

SANDOWN When Sandown was opened in 1965, even those of us who were not Victorians were fascinated and thrilled by the new track. The baby in racing soon established a niche for itself, racki...

This series on long-term strategies will help you finish up well in front. Why throw away a percentage of your betting bank every year on hopeless causes? We have some suggestions as to how your ...

This series on long-term strategies will help you finish up well in front. Why throw away a percentage of your betting bank every year on hopeless causes? We have some suggestions as to how your ...

This series on long-term strategies will help you finish up well in front. Why throw away a percentage of your betting bank every year on hopeless causes? We have some suggestions as to how your ...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...