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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...

NSW on-course bookmakers are set to fight back against their corporate cousins

Racing Queensland has responded to its State Government's decision not to follow Victoria and NSW in introducing a Minimum Bet Law. It comes after Queensland's Racing Minister Grace Grace declare...

In this article our computer expert Neale Yardley investigates probabilities and dispels some common misconceptions many punters have about the so-called law of averages. During one of my recent ...

Will they rejuvenate the stable? David Hayes has hardly been setting the racing world on fire recently but maybe 2011 will see his stocks improve? Latest news is that the stable is gaining three we...

One of Australia's most controversial jockeys, Danny Nikolic, has been barred from all Victorian racecourses by the state's new chief police commissioner Graham Ashton, reports The Age newspaper. ...

Can you ever imagine yourself winning a billion dollars? Okay, not a billion Australian dollars but a billion Hong Kong dollars? This is about $200 million in Australian currency. Sounds like a fa...