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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...

It was business as usual for embattled trainer Bevan Laming when lightly-raced Cape Silver won the IPG Print Plate at Doomben on Wednesday.Laming and his son Richard made headlines around the count...

It was business as usual for embattled trainer Bevan Laming when lightly-raced Cape Silver won the IPG Print Plate at Doomben on Wednesday.Laming and his son Richard made headlines around the count...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...

Boldness be my friend. Someone used this, as I recall, as the title of a novel about the second world war. It aptly sums up what an average punter needs to have as a friend if he has any chance at...

I think it's about time we faced this one square on. We haven't talked much about it for a long time, except when we were printing things that overseas writers had originally penned. And it does...