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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...

FORMER bookmaker and now professional punter Neville Clements was yesterday warned off indefinitely at a hearing of the Victorian Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board, reports The Age.It says: Cle...

Injury-prone stayer Spechenka put Beaudesert trainer Ben Ahrens back in the spotlight with a narrow victory in the Listed Caloundra Cup.Spechenka, ridden by Ryan Wiggins, stormed home from last to ...

There I was at Rosehill, half-way through the meeting and down to my last couple of dollars. Nothing unusual, because most of us have experienced the feeling. To make matters worse I'd lost my fo...

Be honest . . . Faced with the choice between two horses for a race, do you turn to the barrier draw to separate them? If Horse A is drawn in barrier I and the other qualifier is in gate 12, are...

Bookmakers have always been synonymous with horse racing. They are as old as the industry itself. Their importance to the horse racing product of this country cannot be understated. In monetary ...

A very now and again I find myself wondering about some of the so-called “experts” in the racing game. The most recent example came with the voting for Horse of the Year. Makybe Diva was, of cours...