Carry My Money 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...

In my continuing series of articles which discuss the manner in which I, personally, study the form for a meeting, I've explained how I obtain a quite comprehensive over-view of an entire meeting ...

I don't care about the price, at least I've backed a winner," I heard a chap say at my local TAB recently. He'd just had $10 on a winner that paid $2.20. Good luck to him, but ... long term, what'...

I don't care about the price, at least I've backed a winner," I heard a chap say at my local TAB recently. He'd just had $10 on a winner that paid $2.20. Good luck to him, but ... long term, what'...

THE BEST IN THREE PLEASE.I stress that these are MY three and that they will vary according to whom you ask. Anyway here we go: one, two and threeONEThe horse. Simple as that, really. There are hor...

4 hours in the life of our expert, The Optimist I am going to stick to Saturdays for all my comments in this article. That is because (1) Saturdays are probably the principal days for virtuall...

A Tale of Two Rebels.You recall the releasing of weights for the Melbourne Cup, some months back now.Rebel Raider was very popular, and in the first 24 hours some decent bets went on. Months before...