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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...

Southern Speed's recent form and the defection of some high profile runners have given trainer Leon Macdonald confidence in the mare going into Saturday's Caulfield Cup.The four-year-old's past thr...

Peter Snowden hasn't given up on Retrieve as a leading AJC Australian Derby chance.Retrieve has been a massive drifter for the $1.5 million blue-riband classic since his defeat as a short-priced fa...

There are quite a few friends who pool their money each week into a betting syndicate. The general idea is to contribute $10, $20 or even more amongst half a dozen or more punters and each week one...

Luke Oliver's faith in consistent stayer Good Red was rewarded when the gelding delivered on a seven-month plan to give the trainer the biggest win of his career at Flemington.Oliver pulled the ace...

David Hayes cannot speak highly enough of young Chad Schofield. In fact, he reckons he's a champion in the making, a young Brent Thomson or John Stocker. Hayes rolled out the accolades after Chad's...

Punters have gone cold on the chances of Melito in Saturday's Golden Slipper and the filly's trainer Gerald Ryan admits he has concerns about the wet track.But he doesn't think Melito will be any m...