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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...

How much of a losing run can you expect when you make a series of bets? In this article Garry Robinson talks to a mathematician who has examined all aspects of this vital betting factor. GR: (Gar...

Changing the name...Sydney radio station 2KY is changing its image and will now be known as Sky Sports Radio from Tuesday morning. TVs Sky Channel will become Sky Racing in what is being touted as ...

Hong Kong racing can kiss goodbye to WA jockey William Pike. He landed his biggest win in Hong Kong, the Grp 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy (1000m) on Craig's Dragon for trainer John Moore, but will not ...

The one thing that becomes the fear and the bugbear of any betting man's life is the losing streak. This is not just my opinion. Ask anyone who has an interest in trying to make a lot of money fro...

There are a few things, only a few, in this life that can be reasonably counted on. I know that's not a new perspective, and the ones we usually hear about are death and taxes. But racing also h...

Inside info...If you're in the jumps racing business in Victoria, then get ready to try something else...Word in government areas in Melbourne is that jumps racing will soon be outlawed. Time will ...