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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...

The upper echelon of Australian horse racing are WFA races with undoubtedly the WS Cox Plate THE greatest of them all. These are the races where the best horses generally compete and they are also ...

A change in training routine and some new gear have transformed By The Way, an injury-prone galloper chasing a maiden black type win at Flemington on Saturday.By The Way will line up in perfect hea...

Last month we had quite an extensive look at some of the online deals available to punters. It was on pages 18/19 and 20 of the August issue. One that I didn’t look at in any detail was Michael ...

Last month we had quite an extensive look at some of the online deals available to punters. It was on pages 18/19 and 20 of the August issue. One that I didn’t look at in any detail was Michael ...

Daniel Ganderton says the coming weeks are likely to determine his immediate future in Sydney racing.The jockey would love to stay in Sydney but admitted he would look at moving on if he could not ...

PEOPLE AND THEIR WAYSI'm making this a regular series, so here's the first. Every so often we'll drop one into our meetings.This one concerns a fellow I shared a bus ride with. I usually leave my c...