Last Cent 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...

Previously we looked at the different levels of favouritism and how they performed. This month we’ll look at TAB or saddlecloth numbers to see if we can fathom their affiliation with Lady Luck by ...

In this column we take numbers and analyse the ways we can manipulate them to help us find winners and hopefully increase our bank balance. Which are the numbers that are most likely to be meaning...

Using statistical trends to make profits from betting is my chosen path. The stats behind my bets are a great mental support to me during losing spells. My faith in their long-term profitability c...

One of the perennial debates in racing is over the effects of the barrier draw on a horse’s chances in a race. In August 2003, I joined in a discussion on the web-based racing forum, AusRace, reg...

Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...

Last month I stated that laststart winners repeat at about an 18 per cent strike rate, roughly twice the strike rate of horses selected at random. Backing all these last-start winners, I pointed o...