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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...

Matthew Williams fulfilled one of his main ambitions when Uxorious won the Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool.Williams also had Flying Tessie in the Listed $125,000 feature, but had been sweating on U...

Tycoons do cry...Veteran Zipping's Australian Cup win proved a highly emotional one for mega-rich owner Lloyd Williams.He admits he shed a tear or two for the 8YO who had threatened many times to w...

Exclusive Book Extract This is the second part of our exclusive extract from American form analyst and punter Susan Bain’s book Signers, the story of her successful betting exploits with husba...

When Lonhro failed to win the Cox Plate on October 25 his defeat spelled the end of a massive campaign to anoint him our latest "champion". Most of the media commentators were on the Lonhro bandwa...