Combat Man 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...

It's still Karuta Queen on top of the betting market after the official barrier draw for Sat's Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast. She drew gate #10. TAB Sportsbet has the Neville Layt-traine...

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...

GOLD COAST Acceptances on Saturday 15th January, 2011TAB MEETING. Rail: 1.5 metres 1000-400; 0.5 metre Remainder.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-11...

They called him Louis The Snip. He was, in his heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, one of America's most successful punters. But Louis Holloway was also a man who spent his life trying to help other pu...