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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...

Groan..Here we go again...Research, considered "doubtful garbage" by many in the racing industry, has found that whipping horses is futile and does not influence a race. Wait for it...The study was...

Eagle Falls will defend his Oakleigh Plate crown after posting his first win since last year's feature in the Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer David Hayes expected an improved performance from t...

The "poor old punter" faces myriad pitfalls as he goes about the business of betting on racehorses. Many of them he falls into time and again. It's all very well for us pundits to say "don't do t...

In this final section of a review of the unconscious factors that may adversely affect our judgement when gambling, we will look at only one factor - but a very important one. The myth of skill. ...

Time handicapping has been very much maligned over the years, with many racing experts making negative comments on times as an important form factor in horse-racing. The legendary Pittsburgh Phil...

Time handicapping has been very much maligned over the years, with many racing experts making negative comments on times as an important form factor in horse-racing. The legendary Pittsburgh Phil...