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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...

Waller's big charge...Chris Waller has nominated nine of the 87 horses entered for the Epsom Handicap, to be run at Randwick in October. His entries include Metal Bender, Triple Honour and Danleigh...

By all weather reports this Saturday's VRC Derby day will be uncharacteristically wet as this meeting is usually soaked in sunshine and not rain. Nevertheless, what a crackerjack meeting and I must...

BALLARAT Acceptances on Thursday 13th August, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: Rail: +3m 1600 - 600m; Remainder True.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.35 BA...

Last month I ran out of space and I still had one “basic betting rule” to cover. This was my liking for Group races and especially for Group 1 races. It stands to reason that anybody who is seriou...

An academic colleague vaguely interested in horse racing (a rare breed!), asked me if I had heard of a book he was reading about horse racing and written by a psychology professor in America. I us...

CAULFIELD Acceptances on Saturday 10th October, 2009TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.00 HARROLDS F...