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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...

PEOPLE AND THEIR WAYSI'm making this a regular series, so here's the first. Every so often we'll drop one into our meetings.This one concerns a fellow I shared a bus ride with. I usually leave my c...

In-form jockey Chad Schofield and a good draw might be the factors to make the difference for Vara Pearl in a very tough Kwoon Chung Bus Cup, 1,650m at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. The evenin...

Becoming an expert ... how many times have we read about "becoming an expert"? But there are so many areas in which we cannot become experts. We cannot be experts in delicate brain surgery, for ex...

On Sunday morning I leave Melbourne bound for my first European trip as an adult. I say adult because I was actually born in Nurenberg, Germany and I made an overseas trip as an eighteen month old ...

English professional Malcolm Smith runs a small tipping service in the UK and aims to make consistent profits. He achieves this by the use of a set of investment rules. Malcolm recently outlined ...

Trainer Colin Davies believes he has another smart horse on his hands in three-year-old filly Total Liberty who will run in Saturday's Elvis "Ricky" Thurgood 50th Birthday Plate at Moonee Valley.Da...