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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...

Dystopia lowered the boom on favourite Tiger Tees and in the process broke an 11-year-old track record at Warwick Farm on Saturday.The talented five-year-old mare's 2-1/2-length victory over the $1...

TAB punters are confident Press Statement is the one to beat in the Caulfield Guineas, with the favourite firming from $2.50 into $2.30 on the back of a $10,000 bet. The colt has clearly been t...

Sacred Elixir’s Barrier 1 draw hasn’t stopped punters from backing it to win the Victoria Derby, firming from $3.20 to $2.80 with TAB. While over 40% of the market has been on the Gelding, there...

Big support for Sacred Elixir continues with 50% of the TAB market now on the NZ gelding to win the Victoria Derby 2500m at Flemington.  The money flood has pushed him into $2.70 - a significan...

Hugh Bowman moved into equal second place on the Sydney jockeys' premiership and snapped a 28-race run of outs in the metropolitan area with four winners at Canterbury on Tuesday.Bowman went into t...

Hugh Bowman moved into equal second place on the Sydney jockeys' premiership and snapped a 28-race run of outs in the metropolitan area with four winners at Canterbury on Tuesday.Bowman went into t...