Mighty Creation 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...

Trainer Bryan Guy believes a favourable weight and perfect barrier can send Eleda out a winner at Doomben on Saturday before she is aimed at next year's winter carnival.Eleda, who will line up in t...

Astute Brisbane trainer David Murphy has warned punters his stable star Deacon will not be at his peak when he returns to racing at Doomben on Saturday.Murphy said Deacon missed some vital lead-up ...

Astute Brisbane trainer David Murphy has warned punters his stable star Deacon will not be at his peak when he returns to racing at Doomben on Saturday.Murphy said Deacon missed some vital lead-up ...

Psychologists call it 'patterns of behaviour' and, of course, they're talking about human beings and the way that 99 per cent of us adopt a rational lifestyle with predictable behaviour. But what...

Last month I promised to design a year's hypothetical staking plan, an example for you that would restrict your betting on poor days and increase it on the better days, according to your wishes. ...

Last month I promised to design a year's hypothetical staking plan, an example for you that would restrict your betting on poor days and increase it on the better days, according to your wishes. ...