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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...

Special report from AT THE RACES in UKHurricane Fly regained his Stan James Champion Hurdle crown with what was in the end a decisive victory on a great day for treble scorers Willie Mullins and R...

Along with the Straight Six at Flemington, the Randwick Mile holds a distinctive place in Australian racing.The scene of the flagship Doncaster and Epsom Handicaps, it is regarded as the toughest 1...

TO: Jonno, let me start this month with a congratulatory word re: your Saturday Punter. Readers may like to know that this interview is taking place on June 30, and you’ve just come up with a grea...

No two punters have the same approach to form analysis. This much I have learned in many years of battling away at the betting coalface. Yet each punter, in his or her own way, uses much the same...