Another Weapon Horse

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...

Rangirangdoo is considered a kid's pony around the stable but he is proving to be a lethal weapon on the racetrack.The Chris Waller-trained gelding staked his claim for next month's Group One Epsom...

Rangirangdoo is considered a kid's pony around the stable but he is proving to be a lethal weapon on the racetrack.The Chris Waller-trained gelding staked his claim for next month's Group One Epsom...

Jaffa, a 15-year-old pony, could prove the secret weapon to help give rookie trainer Eden Petrie a winner with his first Sydney runner when Queenslander Albert The Fat runs at Randwick on Saturday....

Knowing when to stop is obviously an essential weapon in the profitable punter's arsenal. Whether the bank balance is up or down on any given day, deciding when enough has been lost or, conversely,...

On a day Gai Waterhouse notched her 100th Group One win, fellow trainer Roger Milne claimed his first when Captain Sonador pounced late to take out the Epsom Handicap at Randwick.In what Milne desc...

As a final weapon in my betting armoury over the last decade or so, have used the target staking method known as the 6-Point Divisor Plan. It has worked exceptionally well, due suppose to the fact...