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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...

This series is devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks.  Over the course of a year various aspects of the favourites will be cove...

This series is devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks.  Over the course of a year various aspects of the favourites will be cove...

There is a lot written about punting off course these days that is absolute nonsense. Most punting is conducted off course, and, unless the tracks have a sudden rush of blood and do something real...

There is a lot written about punting off course these days that is absolute nonsense. Most punting is conducted off course, and, unless the tracks have a sudden rush of blood and do something real...

This is the second part of the final article written by the UK expert Philip Alexander shortly before his sudden death earlier this year. Philip was regarded as one of Britain's top experts on bet...

This is the second part of the final article written by the UK expert Philip Alexander shortly before his sudden death earlier this year. Philip was regarded as one of Britain's top experts on bet...