Dabble 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...

So how about a couple of long-range tips for the Queensland winter, the last chance to dabble in some decent futures markets until the spring? I've got my eye on a couple of Mike Moroney's runners....

Hi all,Back and refreshed and lighter in the pocket from frolicking around Coolangatta and a dabble in the Stradbroke. Great to cheer home Black Piranha even though I lost on the race: I wondered p...

Hi all,Back and refreshed and lighter in the pocket from frolicking around Coolangatta and a dabble in the Stradbroke. Great to cheer home Black Piranha even though I lost on the race: I wondered p...

The earth moved for Laurence Eales on Tuesday as the former rodeo rider from Cairns claimed a stunning Melbourne Cup win with Shocking.Once Eales' earth moving company EA Hire furnished him with en...

The really keen punters who dabble with greyhound racing like to study form. If they are super-keen, they'll also attend the dog meetings and take note of greyhounds who perform well. I'm well a...

Although many punters are reticent to dabble in multiple bets in the one race, there is a case to be made out for such an approach being a winner. Like everything else in racing, it needs to be ...