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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...

Chris Waller plans to have four runners in the Summer Cup at Randwick on Boxing Day headed by Bellagio Wynn who is out to complete a rare feature race double.The last-start Christmas Cup winner can...

Wazn has been well supported to give Chris Waller another Sydney distance feature, joining Straight Albert at the head of the market for Monday's City Tattersall's Cup (2095m).Part of the large tea...

Chris Waller favours Strike One to go back-to-back in Saturday's $100,000 Stayer's Cup at Rosehill on what could be a major day for the leading Sydney trainer.Waller is in sight of 100 Sydney winne...

Last start winner Beijing Boy will bypass Saturday's Christmas Cup at Rosehill but Chris Waller will still have a strong hand with three runners.The trainer has decided against the seven-day back-u...