Game Theory 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 theory, Group One races are the pinnacle of achievement, the grand finals, the ends to which all the paths hope to lead, so it is a paradox that the most engaging aspect of  Able Friend 's at...

Last month, I wrote about the life and career of R.W. 'Georgie' Wood, an English schoolteacher who created and published a string of top-selling books, booklets and systems in the 1940s through to...

Many punters, and form analysts say you should always forgive a good horse one bad run. I don't completely subscribe to this theory. What I do subscribe to is that we should fully investigate the...

Trifecta betting has been super popular for many years and its popularity continues to grow. But how do we bet on it to ensure we keep ahead of the game? As with other forms of betting, the trife...

Punters can overdo the "what might happen" scenario to the point where far too many doubts cloud their form work. This weekend yours truly really showed how this "works" with two examples that cost...

Chris Waller is sticking to his theory that Stryker will prove a better horse ridden off the speed and hopes the colt finally gets a chance to prove it in the $1 million Golden Rose.At his first tw...