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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...

Good news for the Stradbroke Day...Brisbane's weather was brightening up on Thursday afternoon. The rain went away and was replaced by mostly sunny skies. As evening fell, there was no sign of rain.

Dragged, kicking and screaming, into the new century...Racing NSW has announced that punters can now bring their laptops to meetings! Hooray! So there is such a thing as enlightenment. The official...

Hugh Bowman got away to an expected 'slow' start to his latest UK riding stint at Royal Ascot overnight. He finished 6th of 14 on 40/1 chance Gallic Star and 13th of 25 aboard another 40/1 roughie ...

BETFAIR PARK SANDOWN HILLSIDE Acceptances on Wednesday 13th January, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: Out 3M Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-01...

In this column we take numbers and analyse the ways we can manipulate them to help us find winners and hopefully increase our bank balance. Which are the numbers that are most likely to be meaning...