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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...

When you go out to buy new clothes, isn't it a fact that in your mind you have a sum in mind beyond which you won't go? You might say "I'll pay $250 for a jacket but no more". It's what is known a...

The following is an extract from an excellent new US book called A Bettor Way by Dean Arnold. Here’s one insight that applies to every bettor: Your personality has as much to do with how you will...

JOHN SINGLETON has become the latest racing player to savage the controversial new whip rules, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.His report says: His attack comes as champion apprent...

Paul Messara may be overseas putting the final touches on Alverta's bid to win at Group One level in France but he'll still have plenty of interest at home with this week's opening of his new satel...

Paul Messara may be overseas putting the final touches on Alverta's bid to win at Group One level in France but he'll still have plenty of interest at home with this week's opening of his new satel...

Paul Messara may be overseas putting the final touches on Alverta's bid to win at Group One level in France but he'll still have plenty of interest at home with this week's opening of his new satel...