Gambler 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...

Professional gamblers call it 'deep state' handicapping: the horse racing method Bill Benter and Alan Woods used to make millions on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrat...

Are you a sensation-seeker as a bettor? Are you someone who secretly hates himself and uses betting as a form of punishment? Do you bet because there's not much else in life that interests you? I...

This should be interesting...The Australian reports that Australia's biggest gambler, a reclusive maths wiz who bets more than $1 billion each year, is being examined by the Australian Taxation Off...

This is the first article by our new columnist, Geoffrey Hutson, a Melbourne University research scientist. Geoffrey will discuss many aspects of betting in his monthly column. He is, in his own w...

This is the first article by our new columnist, Geoffrey Hutson, a Melbourne University research scientist. Geoffrey will discuss many aspects of betting in his monthly column. He is, in his own w...

This is the first article by our new columnist, Geoffrey Hutson, a Melbourne University research scientist. Geoffrey will discuss many aspects of betting in his monthly column. He is, in his own w...