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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...

A month-long absence from the winner's list has Corey Brown looking to reignite his Sydney season at Canterbury on Saturday.The 2001-02 Sydney premier jockey and title runner-up four times, Brown h...

Superstar young jockey  James McDonald  is hoping to take his Spring Racing Carnival form to Hong Kong early next month. The New Zealand-born, Sydney-based rider has been chosen as one of two Aus...

More than 10 years ago I wrote an article in PPM called The Profit Wall. It was all about how much a strike rate you need with your selections and at what prices to emerge with a decent profit. T...

Caulfield early price movements for Saturday, November 30

Early money has gone to Girl In Flight at Caulfield on Saturday. The TAB.com.au price changes on Thursday morning are:

It can sometimes be a frustrating task to track down form information. Often it can mean leaping from one part of the guide to the next and very many times you just can't find what you want. Usin...