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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...

David Ellis paid $NZ1.75 million ($A1.36 million) for a half-brother to King's Rose and then declared he hoped the colt would later be worth "real money".The head of the Te Akau racing and breeding...

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) says it is facing a cash crisis that could threaten the Belmont Stakes and thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.The NYRA is waiting for the state government to ...

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) says it is facing a cash crisis that could threaten the Belmont Stakes and thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.The NYRA is waiting for the state government to ...

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This is the final part of an article on the psychology of punting by Barry Meadow, the respected US handicapper. A winner doesn't worry about setbacks, knowing that nobody's improvement is ever s...