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Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...
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...
Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...
You can back winners all year in Australian horse racing and still finish the year behind — that is a staking problem, not a selection problem. Philip Roy wrote about it for Practical Punting in Ma...
Framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing means putting a price on a horse yourself — estimating its percentage chance, just as a bookmaker does. Denton Jardine wrote this one for ...
The fallout continues from the Damien Oliver betting scandal allegations...Now the champ jockey has been sacked from plum rides in the spring. He has lost the ride on My Quest For Peace in the Caul...
DEMAND for Damien Oliver in big races continues with the Hall of Fame jockey today booked for Ferlax in Saturday’s Toorak Handicap. Trainer Jim Conlan engaged Oliver for Ferlax, which has been ri...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has warmed up for Saturday's Turnbull Stakes meeting with five winners at Geelong.Oliver rode the winners of the first five races and his haul included a quartet for t...
DAMIEN Oliver’s friendship of more than 15 years with former champion jockey cum trainer Johnny Murtagh helped land him the Melbourne Cup ride on Mutual Regard. Oliver, who partnered the Le...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will appeal the severity of a one-month suspension after returning a positive urine sample to the prohibited substance ephedrine when tested on Derby Day at Flemington...
THE titanic struggle for the Melbourne jockeys' premiership continued yesterday at Betfair Park, with Craig Williams taking the lead from rival Damien Oliver with just two city meetings to go befor...
Craig Williams will take over from Damien Oliver on favorite Vigor in the Caulfield Cup. Trainer Danny O'Brien says: ' The 51kgs was always going to be a bridge too far for Damien Oliver and in loo...
A COURT hearing relating to a criminal investigation linked to dual Melbourne Cup winner Damien Oliver was held yesterday - but details cannot be revealed because of a suppression order, reports Th...
Damien Oliver has been charged with illegal betting, plunging the illustrious rider's future into doubt, reports the melbourne Herald Sum. It says: 'Oliver, 40, faces a suspension of between eight ...
Jockey Glen Colless' long-awaited comeback from a serious foot injury has been overshadowed by his axing in favour of Damien Oliver for Perth stayer Scenic Shot in the Hollindale Stakes.Colless has...