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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...

Shane Fliedner is hoping that the home ground advantage will help his two runners Sparks Alight and Sparks Burn at the Bendigo stand-alone metropolitan-class meeting on Saturday.Sparks Alight will ...

On a day of thin races at Sha Tin, the CUHK Alumni Cup (1,200m) is no exception but John Size-trained  Momentum Lucky  looks to have the necessary weapons to hold the advantages in what looks a tw...

CAULFIELD, Saturday July 16, 2011 Meeting Type: Metro (TAB MEETING)Rail Position: in the True PositionTrack Condition: Slow 6Race 1 - 12:10PM The Saturday Age Life&Style Cup (2000 METRES)Of $70,000...

Analysis, patience, insight . . . I think these three qualities sum up the successful punter who bets on greyhounds. You need all three if you are to assure yourself of success over, say, a 12-mon...

Analysis, patience, insight . . . I think these three qualities sum up the successful punter who bets on greyhounds. You need all three if you are to assure yourself of success over, say, a 12-mon...

In 1969, the late Rem Plante published his fine book Australian Horse Racing and Punters' Guide, in which he recommended a simple system of grading each horse's entire career based on the number o...