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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...

Last Saturday I was hoping two of my "warrior" favourites, Sir Slick and Jungle Ruler, could do the job but, alas, it was not to be. Now don't can them for both have the habit of bobbing up just wh...

Looks like we have a 'new' way of beating the official 'court system' when things don't go the way of the stewards...What do they do? They start poring over the transcripts of the appeal. What they...

Hi all,Well, here we go. I am really looking forward to this experiment and will have a great amount of fun cheering the selections home.I am going to state one thing and that is with 40 races to d...

Hi all,Well, here we go. I am really looking forward to this experiment and will have a great amount of fun cheering the selections home.I am going to state one thing and that is with 40 races to d...

áLike a Bird - but what sort?Leica Falcon hasn't won for about 4 years. He ran a blinder in Makybe Diva's third Melbourne Cup.Some felt he should have won it.Last (24th) to fourth in the straight.H...

It's the start of a new season again. A time to look back, and, more importantly, to look ahead. We look back to analyse what we did right and what we did wrong. If possible, we don't want to mak...