Damage Control 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...

GLEN Boss, one of Australia's leading jockeys, is poised to return to racing after his surgeon yesterday cleared him to start riding trackwork in the first week of January, reports The Age. It says...

Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) has gone into damage control after stones were found on the ThoroughTrack forcing the abandonment of Wednesday's race meeting at Geelong.Jockeys were alerted to the st...

Is there anything much worse than to enjoy a golden winning run on the punt and then be hit with a savage losing streak? Talk about a confidence blaster! Losing runs are the bane of every man or ...

How do experts around the world look on the business of betting? In this special article, Denton Jardine takes a look at the writings of some eminent international authorities. This is how they go...

In an earlier article I posed the question, "How many times have you blown your money in the first few seconds of a race?" The reality is today, more than ever before, horse-racing is about the th...

Why does everything seem to go wrong when you back a home you think has a race shot to bits? Why do all your well-thought-out plans go bust? In this article, Statsman explains The Chaos Factor. T...