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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...

I have yet to meet the perfect punter. Or maybe I have and didn't realise I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a genius. I guess there are perfect punters around. It's just that I never see...

Yes, But How Wet?If the Doomben Ten Thousand, one of Australia's biggest sprint races, wasn't being run this weekend I'd be tempted to go to the movies.Well not seriously. I'm addicted to racing wh...

Any punter wanting to adopt a multiple-betting form of attack should remember that care is required - and so is modesty. The old saying 'small profits, quick returns' applies to this style of bet...

Any punter wanting to adopt a multiple-betting form of attack should remember that care is required - and so is modesty. The old saying 'small profits, quick returns' applies to this style of bet...

Any punter wanting to adopt a multiple-betting form of attack should remember that care is required - and so is modesty. The old saying 'small profits, quick returns' applies to this style of bet...

A punter MUST expect to win overall but he must also expect to lose along the way. Last month we got ourselves up to the middle of the 1990s. I’d like to pick up from there. My best win of all was...