No Fooling 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...

There are some horses you have to sneak up on and back them before they know you have backed them. This type of horse has Superman's x-ray vision because when they see you have backed them they bec...

Corey Brown labelled More Joyous the best horse he had ever ridden after the mare's demolition job on her rivals in Saturday's Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill.It was high praise from one of the count...

Each evening, after a day's punting, 1 sit down at my desk in my office at home And fill in a special book. This is my bets book, and it contains every financial aspect of my punting activities. ...

Each evening, after a day's punting, I sit down at my desk in my office at home and fill in a special book. This is my bets book, and it contains every financial aspect of my punting activities. ...

Each evening, after a day's punting, 1 sit down at my desk in my office at home And fill in a special book. This is my bets book, and it contains every financial aspect of my punting activities. ...

Why do so many punters lose at betting? What is it they do wrong, apart from picking too many losers? It's my firm belief we can point the accusing finger at bad habits-punters committing the sa...